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I Don't Know How to Be

I Don't Know How to Be · 4:3

Close up of a pale girl with platinum curls, one huge green eye with teal lashes, a glossy tear dripping from it, gold stars on her cheek, hands pressed to her face, a pink gingham bow and yellow flower at her ear. Signed Magpie.

A pale girl with platinum curls presses both hands to her face and looks straight at you with one enormous green eye, teal painted lashes and a single glossy tear dripping like resin from her lower lid. Gold stars are scattered on her cheek, a pink gingham bow and yellow flower sit at her ear, and everything is sugary pink, teal and gold. She is somewhere between a doll, a clown and a girl who has just been told something. The poem behind her knows how to 'flirt with attention so deeply I hold up the whole world,' and the tear is what that costs.

Made from a poem.

What it costs us, and what most people pay
WhichCosts usMost people pay
poster, 11x9 inches$10.35$22.22
poster, 14x11 inches$12.33$24.42
poster, 16x12 inches$13.53$30.03
poster, 20x16 inches$14.57$33.33
poster, 24x18 inches$16.65$40.04
poster, 32x24 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 girl's face with one green eye, teal lashes, a dripping tear and hands pressed to her cheeks.
The crying clown doll print hung on a white wall above a breakfast table with a mug, a jug and a plate of eggs and bread.
Close up detail of the huge green eye with teal painted lashes, gold stars on the skin and a glossy resin like tear.
The crying clown doll print hung on a navy wall above a vintage bicycle beside an open wardrobe.
Close up of the lower left corner: pale lace, pink and cream ruffles with the Magpie signature in pink script.
The crying clown doll print hung on a pale wall above a white French console table with a small lamp and a tasseled ottoman.
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.

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