#430 "Exciting Perfumes by MEM"

I still think advertising is
imbecile work, useful
for the artist as an activity
to help in putting food on
the table or pay the rent. That
attitude somewhat softened
since the war, getting back
into painting, but now with
only limited options for dis-
play. Pessoa once said to me:
the unnatural & the strange have
a perfume of their own. I've mixed
& matched. The unnatural &
strange have always been with
me. Now I've added someone
else's chic perfume; & so, in
magazines & tous les grands
magasins, posters & full-page
liftouts have returned my
name, my output, back into
the discerning public's eye.