La Copa Roja

La copa roja, originally uploaded by amoelbarroco.

My favorite Flickr dandy, all dolled up again and nuzzling a vessel of vino. Amoel’s works combine the vocabularies of old and new gothic, which is why I find her so fascinating…there is an element of *punk in her clothing, and also a dash of the doll, a clippet of clown, touched all over with her simple non-Americanness.

Here I enjoy the powdered skin in contrast to the painfully clean, almost shrieking shine of the glass. The polka dots calling very gently to the peeking lace on the shoulder. And especially, the graduating pearl studs, looking not so much pierced as pinched by the furl of the cartilage.