The Effect
“Head in Water”. Natalie d’Arbeloff. Oil on canvas. Collection of Karl Genus, New York. I was eighteen and in Paris, staying at my aunt’s place on Rue de L’Université on the Left Bank. It was what...
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From Blaugustine, January 17, 2006 (now included in the Autobiography archive) The old house on the Rio Paraguay as it looked when my family first arrived there So when and why did I decide to bury...
View ArticleStrangers in Paradise
Download: strangers.mp3 When God and His assistant Evolutio created insects, they were drunk on a nectar they had concocted the night before, so you can imagine the hilarity. It was Evo’s idea to add...
View ArticleFrom the Revelation of St. John the Divine
(Click on image to view at larger size.) My friends Frances and Nicolas McDowall (the Old Stile Press) asked me to think of a book I’d like to illustrate which they could print and publish. I’d always...
View ArticleImitation Self
by Natalie d’Arbeloff Click on image to see a larger version Four self-portraits, more or less in the manner of four Old and New Masters I admire and envy for all the ways in which they are unlike me:...
View ArticleMy life’s fragments waiting for reassembly
by Natalie d’Arbeloff These fragments lying on the floor of my studio are some of the stencils I drew and cut to create My Life Unfolds, an accordion book included in the exhibition Open Books, which...
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