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Ramona was also a character whose outward visualization had the most potential to go anywhere. I don't identify with those characteristics, but I remember them vividly.

Ramona psychologically reminded me of the people you would find in the stairwells, at their wits end. When I was young I lived in a building in New York City that was very dangerous. Ramona, to me, was born from scattered insanity. Somehow we both understood those channels, intensely. When I think about Ramona, I think of the conversations David and I had and what we created from his initial description, I don't think of the song. I haven't paid attention to that song in some time. Stone/I started with no enemies of my own/I was an artiste/In a tunnel.” Could you describe the specifics of what so attracted you to this character - as she's presented both within the song and how you connected her personally to the people you've met over the years and to yourself directly? Stone/I Am with Name,” the beginning of the lyrics go, “I was Ramona A. You've spoken of how you quickly connected with the character of Ramona, who you describe as a “Rawkler”, “a term I had created in the underground, art scene in NYC with friends.” In the song which features her, “Segue - Ramona A.

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I am a perfectionist, so the challenges were how to deliver on the level. That was not a fluke, or a posed, pretty picture, but a mutual understanding of mind sets through multiple gratifying conversations prior to the actual week long shoot in London. That is why when you see the images of us together we appear so familiar with one another. So we did and we continued to go further. Afterwards he gave me instructions for our next conversation. This happened right away, and it was obvious the artistic boundaries between us were limitless. He and I went to deep, psychological places to flesh out the characters and to take them further. In our initial conversation, we spoke for over an hour. How could you not? Changes was the first album I personally ever owned, and Bowie was the first concert I went to when I was literally a child. Then I got a call to work with Bowie from my agent routed through the photographer John Scarisbrick and I of course got sucked back in for another round. At the time I was putting myself though NYU, focusing on writing and psychology, and trying to veer away from styling as I had fallen into it, and though I was natural at it, having brought characters to life since a child and always having a unique sense of style, it didn't fulfill my needs to express. Outside, to me, was a conceptual art project with several parties involved. How did this collaboration with him initially come about, and what were some immediate creative challenges for you when you began the project? Then you worked as a stylist to bring those characters to life in a photo shoot featuring Bowie. The way I understand it conceptually, the album features sung/spoken tales of several outsider characters developed by Bowie and Brian Eno in spontaneous recording sessions. Let's start with a general overview of how you collaborated with David Bowie for his 1995 album 1. In this interview, she talks about her latest music releases and her current NYC pop-up exhibition at The Development featuring work from her 1995 collaboration with David Bowie on his album 1. Elster has been a performance artist since her teens in the underground art scene to more recent performances at the New Museum and galleries, such as signs and symbols, Catinca Tabacaru and The Development. Under her activism banner, Nonpartisan Peace, Elster is currently focusing on bringing further awareness to COVID-19 and continuing to help protect the vote. She is known for her performance artwork, art protests, and art exhibitions including “The Retrospective of an Extroverted Recluse” and “The Wake the F*ck Up Show” transforming the late David Bowie into different characters, writing lyrics that Yoko Ono performed for Elster’s directorial, online, cinematic, experience “ItW Pathway”, which also featured Terrence Howard, Will Oldham, Temple Grandin, the late Glenn O’Brien, and others as well as her activism work including writing a campaign with Gloria Steinem in support of net neutrality. Jennifer Elster is a writer, artist, filmmaker, photographer, and performer known for offering a deep and direct awareness of the human condition and current world crisis.

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