Every Day is Halloween: Doodles from My Goth Days
Fall is here, my favorite time of year. Lately, I have been reminiscing about my adolescence, who I was back then, and what I learned from those experiences. I saved some of my doodles between the ages of 17 and 18. The bulk of the images were primarily drawn during class. Many of these doodles were also made during my year in public school (I attended Catholic high school). It was a troubling period in my life, filled with intense love, heartbreak, confusion, and angst.
Design I, 1990. The main reason I wanted to attend public school was so I could wear the dresses that I designed and sewed (well, mom did most of the sewing, actually).
Design II, 1990.
No Where’s Place: The Children of God, 1990.
Three Goth Girls, 1991.
Call Me Morbid, Call Me Pale, 1990. Title inspired by the lyrics of the song, Half a Person, by The Smiths.
Death, 1990.
Gothic: Gothicism, 1990. The poem excerpt that is cut off is by Oscar Wilde. It reads: “And the wild regrets and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I, for he who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die.”
Gothic…The World Just Won’t Listen, 1990.
Gothic, 1990.
Goth Girl, 1990.
Tears, (with blotted lipstick) 1990.
Lonely, 1990.
Since Before Our Births, We Have Belonged to One Another, 1990.
Untitled, 1991.
Chris 649-3188 written in lipstick beside my blotted lipstick and in back of a goth sketch titled Lovers and Killers, 1991.
The Departed: A Tale of Two in Search of One, 1991.
Everyday is Halloween, 1990. Taken from a Ministry song with the same name.
Vampire with no arms (A.K.A. I’m Bleeding, Leave Me Alone!), 1990.
Death Angel, 1990.
I’m Really Fucken Trying! 1990.
Goth Girl on Insurance Memo Pad, 1991.
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