The Year that Frida and Chaka and Betsey Johnson Showed Up to Celebrate

I wanted a reminder of all the power that I can harness inside myself, that we all have access to. I wanted an explicit reminder that, yes!, I DO rule this empire, this palace of dazzle that is my life! I also wanted some back-up, so I called on the wild inspiration of women who are strong as song and have *captivated* their own brilliance and if they were afraid to shine, they cranked those radiant lights on anyway! They told their stories anyway! They painted and designed and lipsticked and wrote the ink of their lives out anyway!! All along the margins and woven into the paint of this piece I have written: What would Betsey Johnson do? What would Jennifer Hudson do? What would Tonya Leigh do? Michelle Obama? Bonnie Raitt? Frida? Tamara de Lempicka? Heidi Klum? Chaka? What would Pink do? Dorianne Laux? Maya Angelou? Marilyn? Joan Didion? And finally, what would Julia do? Because I walk among excellence! Because a jewel is most brilliant when surrounded in the wildest, brightest, most raw and blazing light!
What would You do? What will you do, my loves, when you jump yourself down into the bright and glinting hours of this new and dazzling year!! Go forth and Seize the Dazzle!!! Happy 2016! It's going to be SO glitteringly, breathtakingly good! I can't wait to watch you shine.
Xoxoxo,
Julia Alter
Head Empress, Seize the Dazzle
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Please go and warm your beings at the creative campfire, a joining of over 50 artists' works in a magical celebration of 2016! Put together by the wonderful Juna Biagioni http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iahygj2ppzE&sns=em
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