darby as “daphne dulcinea” in perennial.

the second illustration in my series wallpaper girls, inspired by louis wain and the yellow wallpaper by charlotte perkins gilman.

“I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness. Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd, unblinking eyes are everywhere. There is one place where two breaths didn’t match, and the eyes go all up and down the line, one a little higher than the other.”

the first illustration in my series wallpaper girls, inspired by louis wain and the yellow wallpaper by charlotte perkins gilman.

“I never saw a worse paper in my life … It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.”