Bethalynne Bajema
BIO: Bethalynne Bajema was brought to this world some years past, spring time-ish, in a dark ceremony using stolen languages since unspoken by man. From an early age she was taught sewing, story telling and unconventional warfare… all this in preparation of her foretold future as Dread Overlord & Tailor. What prophecy could not see was the impact her older brother’s comic collection would have on her and the siren songs of India ink, the arts and the written word. These talents have since been nurtured and have been showcased in a variety of magazines, books, cover artwork, as well as for more than ten years online.
Mixing equal parts Victorian horror, sepia erotica, clockwork logic and Industrial music, Beth carves her dreams on the skins of Tibetan holy men before transferring their contents to the computer’s screen.
Beth currently has returned from the East Coast to Michigan with her fiancee, their rather bizarre not-so-little cat, a laptop, and her dark army. Online she can be found at her personal site Bajema’s Web, or the Miskatonic Archive, a steampunk meets Lovecraft site she helps maintain with her fiancee Myke. The two of them also stock and run a rather successful internet store: Etta Diem’s Attic Shop of This and That, a place to get a variety of prints and merchandise from both Beth and Myke, along with the unique and dark Etta Diem brand items.
Beth welcomes emails and absolutely adores getting snail mail correspondence. She’s about to begin another traveling scrapbook project for her Snapdragon Tea members –this is when a group of people each create and submit their own unique art and design to a few pages that will go into a scrapbook based upon a certain theme. Anyone into such paper arts, or would like to try their hand at becoming a member of the Snapdragon Tea Society need only contact Beth (ettadiem at gmail.com) and let her know. The Society doesn’t bite and they’ve even gotten their infestation of Quantum Quirks under control thanks to a new QQ spray by eccentric member Etta Diem.
(Biography provided by John Galati)
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SELF PORTRAITS
I hate photography when it’s focused at me. I have very heavy lids, or bedroom eyes if I want to go for the more alluring description. This means that 90% of the photos other people take of me my eyes are usually half closed so I look either stoned, sleepy or both. I am, however, a very big fan of self portraits because I find it interesting to see how a person capture’s themselves. This was once a more dramatic form of expression, but with the sudden disease of social networking sites and the dread myspace upper-looking-down angle shot that everyone and their mother has of themselves self portraits have lost a little of their zing. These are some of my older self portraits that I’ve always liked. Mostly because they don’t capture me at all. I don’t look a thing like this but I would love too. In a more interesting world I would long for white skin that isn’t a product of being an albino. White skin with either blue or petal pink hair that is natural, not the strange effects of Manic Panic hair dye. These portraits are heavily altered and not meant to be taken as a snapshot of what I look like, but rather how I see myself in my brain in my personalized and perfect unnatural world of looks.
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