Lucy Hope

"In reality, I do not want to do anything. Until now, like those that catch fish in the ocean to live, I scrounge for trash in the garbage area and sold it for money. But because laws changed and I was forced out of the garbage area. Then I had no choice but to become an artist. Being an artist is like selling trash... pick up some good garbage and sell it to those who want it... It's the same exact process. As an artist, my pleasure is to find beauty,

Although it is very enjoyable, finding beauty does not have much value. My goal in life os to die. Until that moment of my death, I have no choice but to live and kill time. I work hard and enjoy things that give me pleasure. The most pleasurable things are sex and stroking my cat head.

That is why my drawings are composed of these things"

-Musubu Nakai, translated from Japanese
Juxtapoz Erotica

In a land where the women are creatures and friends are made with the ghosts of pets past, lives Lucy Hope. Not so long ago, inspired by Jim Henson films, midnight apparitions and talking animals, Lucy used watercolours, inks, pastels and tea to paint images of hauntingly beautiful women. The women ran naked through out the land all summer but once winter came they grew cold and needed something to cover their tea stained skin. So Lucy started to design clothes fit for the women of such unearthly beauty. She sourced silks, laces and lightweight cottons from far and wide and even created special prints for them to wear. Now they play in pretty puff skirts, tiny tops made from sheerest of silks and sweet dresses with delicate trimmings. Lucy Hope strikes the balance between whimsical and wearable for anyone who is a little bit magic living an everyday life.

The Lucy Hope muse is soft, girly and drinks tea with whiskey in it. Sometimes she talks to herself. She sleeps with the animals on the ground and her best friend is a bear. She listens to Cat Power and Radiohead, eats honey out of the jar and breathes in sunshine.