Possessing and painting special garments

Original ink drawings by Initially NO, including 2026, 'Moth Lady dances naked in memory of meeting Vali Myers'. BUY HERE

Rumour is that visual artist Initially NO got possessed by an Italian leather jacket. She got paint on it, and decided to paint the leather more deliberately, which made matters worse. The possession increased even more when she cut the jacket's length, and then further more again when she cut out the tag label, 'Censor'.

The details of what Initially NO did during Victoria's lockdown laws, under the jacket's possession, are even known to the theatre director whom gifted her the jacket 30 years ago. The director came by with a bicycle, and teasingly leaned it against the shop window. While Initially NO recognised the director, remembered her name, the jacket told Initially NO that the director looked the same in the 1990s, and this person before her was obviously not the director she once knew, but was a doppleganger.

The director tried, in vain, to break the possession, of the jacket, by saying, 'Go back to Italy!' as she moved her bike away, but, that still didn't stop the possession.

Initially NO had to realise that she needed to think about the necessities she was depriving herself of, and never again wake up in the middle of the night to do tasks that, no matter how urgent they seem, must wait until the morning.

Magical mythic vintage taro cards, with diptych painting, 'Night and day' by Initially NO

Paintings and sculptures by Initially NO, seated on 1920s black velvet cape (a very special garment)