Maxima Strange

My Life, My Letters, My Art

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It was a dark and stormy night...

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A Secret Matter of Grave Importance

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Rubber stamps and Copic marker in Midori notebook.

“You know that I have always considered that literature and the arts pursue an aim independent of morality. Beauty of conception and style is enough for me. But this book, whose title (Fleurs du mal) says everything, is clad, as you will see, in a cold and sinister beauty. It was created with rage and patience. Besides, the proof of its positive worth is in all the ill that they speak of it. The book enrages people. Moreover, since I was terrified myself of the horror that I should inspire, I cut out a third from the proofs. They deny me everything, the spirit of invention and even the knowledge of the French language. I don't care a rap about all these imbeciles, and I know that this book, with its virtues and its faults, will make its way in the memory of the lettered public, beside the best poems of V. Hugo, Th. Gautier and even Byron.” —Charles Baudelaire

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Illustration for Les Epaves by Charles Baudelaire

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Two more pages of fun with rubber stamps

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More fun with rubber stamps

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I like repetition and Andy Warhol

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More fun with rubber stamps

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The author stamps were created by Adam Roussopoulos. Quotes added for practice.

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The words are from a poem by Hadara Bar-Nadav.

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More experimentation with rubber stamps

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Working with rubber stamps again today

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And even more fun with rubber stamps.

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More fun with rubber stamps

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Just having some fun with rubber stamps

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New pages in my latest project