I Don't Know How to Be

I Don't Know How to Be · 1:1

Woman kneeling with her head bowed and hands in her long dark hair, wearing a dress that looks like melting pink frosting and gold leaf pooling on a pink and mint floor, in front of an ornate mint and pink striped doorway with painted roses. Signed Magpie.

A woman kneels on a pink and mint checkered floor with her head bowed and both hands buried in her long dark hair. Her dress looks poured rather than sewn, thick pink frosting and gold leaf melting off her shoulders and pooling around her in folds. Behind her stands an enormous carved doorway in candy stripes, mint scrollwork and painted roses, like the entrance to a dollhouse she cannot make herself walk through. You never see her face. The poem behind her lists everything she knows how to do, spill herself on the floor, dream impossible things, hold up the whole world, and ends 'But I don't know how to be what anybody seems to need of me without erasing all of the me that I've found.' This is the floor.

Made from a poem.

What it costs us, and what most people pay
Which	Costs us	Most people pay
poster, 10x10 inches	$10.35	$22.22
poster, 12x12 inches	$12.33	$24.42
poster, 16x16 inches	$13.53	$30.03
poster, 18x18 inches	$14.57	$33.33
poster, 20x20 inches	$16.65	$40.04
poster, 24x24 inches	$21.09	$44.44
the file, to print yourself	$0.00	$11.11

Pay what you can, from the cost up, in the jewelry box. Or buy the print on Etsy, the file on Etsy.

Closer view of the kneeling figure, head bowed, hands in her dark hair, the melting pink dress spreading across the floor.

The melting pink dress print hung on a grey wall above a black tufted leather armchair and a metal trunk.

Close up detail of pale hands streaked with pink pressed into long dark wavy hair, a melting pink ruffle at the shoulder.

The melting pink dress print hung on a grey wall above a blush velvet chaise with a white fur throw.

Close up of the right side: pooled pink folds of the dress on the mint floor with the Magpie signature in green script.

All three I Don't Know How to Be prints hung together above a black velvet sofa on a deep teal wall with exposed brick.

Three prints hung together in a white paneled room above a green velvet armchair: the harlequin doll, the melting pink dress and the lovers kiss.

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