Dudu Tomaselli

A Peaches acabou arrumando uma polêmica ao doar uma calcinha rosa para uma boa causa.

Alguns amigos resolveram doar ítens pessoais para ajudar a amiga e artista visual Tyler Clark Burke a comprar uma casa. A Peaches cedeu a calcinha ali de baixo. E o ítem foi colocado a venda pelo E-Bay. Acontece que a política de vendas do site de leilões para ítens taxados de “adultos” não permite a venda de roupas íntimas usadas. Resultado: tiraram do ar o leilão.

Para contornar a situação os amigos de Tyler colocaram em leilão um rolo de fios de lã. Quem comprar leva de brinde a calcinha, conforme essa explicação.

Aqui uma pequena biografia da artista, retirado do site Katherine Mulherin:”Tyler Clark Burke was born under seven tornadoes in Lexington, Kentucky. She left before she learned an accent, though the racetrack and bourbon never left her blood. Her parents later moved to Winnipeg, immediately forming a community group to sue a menacing church. They had meetings and threw big parties and made t-shirts which read “God is not dead, he’s just stuck in traffic”. Tyler wore these shirts to elementary school, and also at home when she was drawing strange clowns for Fellini.

Her first show–at least ten years later–was in the back of a bar with pictures clothes-pinned to strings over two dirty pool tables. She “sold” her first pieces that night to two strangers who had wandered in from the cold–one was Mary Margaret O’Hara, the other Bob Wiseman. When it came time to deliver–and Tyler hated to follow-up–Mary Margaret didn’t answer her phone, and she just couldn’t take money from Bob (years later she handed him the painting in an envelope and ran away).

Things somehow got better. She started a record label (internationally acclaimed Three Gut Records), was the Art Director for Wavelength, won strange design awards, started a music-art-dance party called Santa Cruz and contributed illustrations regularly (and still does) to the likes of The Walrus, Dose and Eye Weekly. When Googled, you’ll also find that she sometimes writes, she’s had a string of unusual bike accidents, she collaborates with Feist, she’s toured the U.S. on a reading/performance art tour, she lived in a slanty shanty, she casts videos (k-os and Buck 65 most recently), illustrates t-shirts/books (Sarah Harmer, Feist, Darren O’Donnell, The Constantines) and she shot the notorious Peaches’ crotch shot album cover.”