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  • main
  • film [narrative]
    • smash face
    • i have some of your stuff.
    • heart to heart
    • seeing red
    • shoot
  • film [art]
    • pink! pink! pink!
    • there is a house on fire
    • there will be a film about the fire
    • shoot
    • eat you alive
  • sculpture & 2D
    • on fire
    • there is a house on fire
    • tell me I'm not on fire
    • oops!
    • collage
    • plastic promises
    • whoops!
  • photography
    • portraits
    • flower boys
    • our bedroom
    • eat me
    • diagram of a copernican universe
    • reel
    • insomniac dance
    • los angeles vegetation
    • miscellaneous
    • travel
    • album covers
  • commercial work
    • Album Covers
    • BuzzFeed
    • BuzzFeed - Nifty
    • Cantiq LA
    • Gingerly Witty
    • Harbor Freight Tools
    • HelloGiggles
    • Mitú
    • Moon Juice
    • Paramount
    • Swaje
    • Tiny Bangs
    • Topology Eyewear
    • Vegamour
  • poetry
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nicolette daskalakis
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It's my party (2021)

"It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to."
- Lesley Gore


For me, Lesley Gore's 1960s chart-topping pop song, "It's my party", brings to mind visions of a woman dancing on top of a kitchen table, hair wild, mascara running, her mouth covered in a mess of birthday cake remains... While some may dismiss Gore's song as a catchy pop song about a good-old, boy-crazy cry session, I see something more. For me, it symbolizes a woman willing to voice what she wants and wear her heart on her sleeve. She's willing to cry in public and ask for space. "Play all my records, keep dancing all night / But leave me alone for awhile/ ... / It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to"

Evocative of blown-out candles, half-eaten cake, and a pink frosting-covered fingers, this series of paintings calls for a loud, messy, unapologetic existence. Live every day like it's your birthday. Be the center of attention. Relish in the sugar-rush of deservingness and reckless celebration. The messiness of the frosting-like paint and bold pink colors tell the tale of a woman not afraid to take up space. She has her cake and is eating it too. 

Cry. Sing. Dance. Yell. It's your party...and you can do whatever you want.
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  • main
  • film [narrative]
    • smash face
    • i have some of your stuff.
    • heart to heart
    • seeing red
    • shoot
  • film [art]
    • pink! pink! pink!
    • there is a house on fire
    • there will be a film about the fire
    • shoot
    • eat you alive
  • sculpture & 2D
    • on fire
    • there is a house on fire
    • tell me I'm not on fire
    • oops!
    • collage
    • plastic promises
    • whoops!
  • photography
    • portraits
    • flower boys
    • our bedroom
    • eat me
    • diagram of a copernican universe
    • reel
    • insomniac dance
    • los angeles vegetation
    • miscellaneous
    • travel
    • album covers
  • commercial work
    • Album Covers
    • BuzzFeed
    • BuzzFeed - Nifty
    • Cantiq LA
    • Gingerly Witty
    • Harbor Freight Tools
    • HelloGiggles
    • Mitú
    • Moon Juice
    • Paramount
    • Swaje
    • Tiny Bangs
    • Topology Eyewear
    • Vegamour
  • poetry
  • CV
  • about
  • contact