Candy Cane

Laura Willette @ Pal's Clubhouse

"Hey, you look like a candy cane!  Can I take picture of you holding some tarot cards?"
"Um.... YES!"
Smooth.  Olivia's cards (The Empress, The Five of Wands) form a paradox of conflict within support, the grand conundrum of "selling out".  Hypocrisy is enmeshed in the human condition, it's at the core of Nature, so we might as own it.  Olivia associated "selling out" with her modeling career.  Modeling is her bread and butter, she loves it, but acknowledges it's dangerous tendency to manufacture desire.  She is saddened by people's desperation to conform to phantasms... torturing their body for a "beauty" they will never own, embracing annorexia, bulimia, and depression over the thought of being ugly.  Women (and men) transforming themselves into candy canes:  shiny, rail thin, saccharin fetish objects.

But Olivia's beauty is her own.  I had a wonderful time talking with her and was struck by how joyful she is, laughing and smiling even in the midst of a slightly heavy conversation.  She keeps it real and treats herself well, which I think is the most any of us can do in this world of contradictions.