How Paz de la Huerta Found Peace in Her Surrealist Paintings

in person a few weeks ago, on New Years Eve in Paris, but we’d started messaging each other last summer after she received a bottle of my perfume from our mutual friend, the writer Sam Kashner. The perfume—. Unlike the women in Tennessee Williams’s universe, Elizabeth Taylor lived a long life and found her way amidst and despite chaos and violence. Similarly, de la Huerta managed to survive the horrific underbelly of Hollywood, and more.

DE LA HUERTA: I’m an orphan, she’s an orphan. But now we have each other, so we’re not orphans anymore.ZAPPAS: Orphans have a way of finding each other.ZAPPAS: I think spiritually I’m a little bit of an orphan. I’d say I’m a black sheep. Your work reminds me of a few different artists. It definitely reminds me a little bit of Goya. Who do you look up to, who inspires you?

DE LA HUERTA: I’m very Catholic. And in that painting you told me you like, my mother had me operated on at 20 days old without anesthesia. So, that’s a portrait of me as a baby with all those wires in my body, being mutilated. Then I painted Mother Mary kind of replacing her, because I never got any love. So I’ve healed with Mother Mary, and she’s in lots of my art.How I replaced every memory of my evil mother with the Virgin Mary.

DE LA HUERTA: Yes, definitely. It is Arielle. A true star like Marilyn Monroe, who suffered all these tragedies. And you make these incredible perfumes. They’re so appropriate for us women. The star gives too much, and in the ancient Tarot, the L’étoile waters her garden so much that the flowers die. In this painting of Arielle, if you look at it on the bottom, the leaves are turning gray.Me and my ol’ Man Jack and Five Crying AngelsDE LA HUERTA: Yes.

ZAPPAS: I just can’t wait to see how this new story of your life is reflected in your art, and how the crying angels will continue to shift and change and reflect the new direction you’re going in.

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