At the end of 2012, Lala arrived in Paris in search of inspiration for her paintings and world creation. Along with inspiration, she also stumbled upon success, as gallery owners and collectors found her work groundbreaking. She felt like a star, but all things have an expiration date…
One cold day in February 2013, while on her way to an event, Lala took a violent fall on the subway station stairs in Paris. This painful welcome to Paris left her with a broken tooth and knocked unconscious. Her friends rushed her to an emergency hospital where dentists repaired her teeth by sealing the cracks and capping the lateral incisor. However, the trauma she suffered would have lasting effects far beyond this.
In the summer of 2016, Lala travelled from Paris to Sedona, Arizona and visited a medium.
The medium read the Death card, a card denoting change…the death of one thing and the beginning of another. Lala took the card quite literally, and rushed funeral arrangements, creating plans for her last tableaux, a funeral installation displaying her body in her coffin, breasts exposed, surrounded by flowers. Needless to say, Lala’s reaction was an overreaction, as she probably wasn’t really going to die, but still, Death wasn’t going to let her get off that easy.
In November 2016, while rehearsing her next performance piece “Phalanges revitalisation,” she felt a sharp pain around her nose and front teeth.
The pain was unbearable and her Drones took her to an emergency dentist. The dentist found that both of her incisors were “necrosées” (necrotized, dying). Lala underwent a “devitalisation,” a procedure where the dentist drilled holes into her teeth in order to kill the nerve and disinfect each tooth. The dentist then filled in her two teeth like mummified bodies. A literal Death, foreseen in the cards. After the three-week long procedure, Lala’s teeth felt back to normal again, but, Death’s influence had just begun. 
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Towards the end of 2016, due to too many failed art experiments, and Lala’s plunging media presence, investors in Paris pulled out from financially supporting Lala, leaving her with a large debt from which to recover. With the Lala Laboratory destroyed, and Drones scattered around the world, Lala’s artistic success seemed ill-fated. All her efforts were futile, and Lala at her lowest, went out to the bars in Paris, and danced another deadly dance with red wine and the Paris underground. In the tunnels of the Paris subway, she tripped on the stairs and fell again, hitting her head on the wall. The next morning, Lala woke up in the Paris subway with a jarring headache, and a beeping coming from her phone. Lala looked at her phone to find an email from a group of investors in Beijing, China. They were fascinated by her work and were inviting her to relocate her projects to their home country. A drastic change, presented itself. As foreseen in the cards, the beginning of one thing, and the death of another. Lala hastily accepted the project.
She is calling out to all Drones in Beijing, as her estimated time of arrival is mid-March, 2017. She will spread her Drone empire, rebuild the Lala Laboratory, and resume her art/Muse experiments.
It seems the Death card has closed its chapter on Paris. Lala’s accident on arrival in Paris caused her teeth to slowly die over the 4 years she has spent there. Now that her teeth have finally perished, so has her time in Paris. A promising future awaits, as Lala will soon begin her next chapter in Beijing, China.
Based on a fact.
Alisa McQueen, Art Tomorrow Weekly Magazine
Based On A Fact 
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