Lala Drona has reported trouble sleeping and vivid nightmares during her spiritual walkabout through the Western United States. Many dreams end in her death, or the death of another at her own hand.
While perusing along the rusted streets of Sedona, Arizona, Lala Drona stumbled upon a very familiar looking building. A sudden rush of déjà vu came over her. The font of the letters on the glass, and the rusted color on the exterior of the shop called to her. Lala’s dream the night before involved a psychic warning her of imminent death, and the shop in front of her was the spitting image of the shop in her dream.
Lala entered and smelled the same nagchampa lavender candle that burned in the dream the night before. She sat on the paisley printed cushions in the room and waited as Madame Bonnie, the same psychic from her dream entered into the room. Reliving the scene, Lala followed her into a hidden room in the back.
Lala answered Madame Bonnie’s question before she had time to answer it. “Yes, this is my first tarot reading,” she said.
Madame Bonnie looked into Lala’s eyes and squinted. “You are a very sensitive person, aren’t you? Perhaps some psychic abilities of your own?” Madame Bonnie took Lala’s hand and read her past life. “You were a creative…a very sensitive and spiritual woman in your past life. Your ideas were unusual but intelligent. There were many people around you that were jealous, and you died early on because of this…somewhere in your twenties. You are still this woman today, but today people are much more accepting of your ideas. This is the time you were meant to live in, so now you are living out the life she didn’t get the chance to.”
Madame Bonnie asked Lala to shuffle the cards, and laid them down on the table in a celtic cross fashion. Lala anticipated the death card. As soon as Madame Bonnie laid it down, she said, “Are you dealing with death at the moment, or anything resembling death?”
Lala wanted to tell Madame Bonnie of how she lived her life…of how she intentionally confronted death daily, how she called upon death everyday in order to live life well. To appreciate the things she had and to extract drive from it. However, Lala responded, “No.”
“Many people fear the death card, but it can be a very positive card. It signifies change, and in your case an extreme change in your career…the death of one thing and the birth of another. I read that you will soon receive the type of recognition that you have been searching for in your career.” Lala thought of her projects, the book she’d been writing and her new art piece to be released in an exhibition in October.
Immediately after, Lala called a video
meeting with several Drones and Muses to plan her funeral arrangements. An open casket funeral displaying the body of the artist covered in flowers, only the breasts and face exposed. As the artist has vowed to only show her breasts in her paintings, she has denied several prominent photographers her image. The funeral will be the sole moment in the artist’s life that the public will see her breasts “dans la vie réelle.” The installation is what Lala Drona likes to call her “final piece.”
Lala explained the piece to Based On a Fact:
“I’m not planning on going anywhere now, but I would like my life’s work to finish with something beautiful and intentional. As Marina Abramovic said You cannot choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.”
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Harry Gilbert, Sedena Art Tribune
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