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"Portrait of Sylvia von Hardcase"
Dixie Otto
Having lost a lung and a half to demon tobacco, Ms Otto became a
crusader in the battle to stamp out cigarette smoking. She did this by producing
some of the most hideous portraits ever executed, in the process using up tube
after acrylic tube of nicotine ocher, tar black and carcinoma
gray.
In the portrait shown here, mischievously entitled "Sylvia von Hardcase,"
to disguise the lady's real last name,¹ Ms Otto highlights smokers' blatant
disregard of other restaurant patrons yearning to breathe free, a right noted on
the base of the Statue of Liberty. Not to mention the rather prominent sign next
to
the offender's head. The distorted hands may be indicative of smoker's
acromegaly, or Palmer's Syndrome. In any case, the artist drives home her
point with a blunt instrument, even adding a death's head to the cigarette case
to get the message across to the totally clueless.
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¹Hackspittle.
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Acquisition made possible by grants from Nicorette® and Zyban®, and from Bendix®
brand Iron Lungs & Respirators "Easy on the Inhale, No Burning on the Exhale!"
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