ANIMAL favorite Molly Crabapple has recently emerged from her Kickstarter-funded art project Week in Hell. After days of self-imposed exile spent covering the walls of an entire hotel room with a hand-drawn mural — plus sips of absynthe and visits from porn stars — she only lost it at the end of her arty binge when the work was done. Thatta girl. Here are some photos from the inside.
Molly tells ANIMAL:
I thought I was totally alright until the last day, when I finished a 20 foot stretch, jumped up and down, and collapsed on the floor, laying there for an hour, talking gibberish to the folks on my livestream.
It was total stream of consciousness — inspired in part by muses like Amber Ray and Stoya who came to visit me. There’s a pi-tea party in one corner showing me and a dear friend’s sour inner selves, and a fishbowl filled with girls, and above the bed is a giant face vomiting girlthings, which I hoped would give me inspiring dreams.
Afterwards, I was pretty broken, and lay in bed for two days.
Cathartic. (Photos: Steve Prue)
I don't get why it was a week in hell…she was in a pretty nice hotel room & she didn't have to go to work; instead she could doodle on the walls, drink absinthe and have visitors. I would call that a staycation.
heh, you have never stared down an 18'x7' blank wall knowing that you have to cover it with drawings up to your usual standards with the whole interweb watching you do it….while always having in the back of your head that you can't leave the room for 7 days.
it was a plush hell, but it wasn't an easy hell.
No but I can analogize, it's a little known phenomena called a deadline. But this one is self-enforced and involves drinking, conversation and drawing (as noted above). What do you call a fun deadline?