Characters from the Counter Culture the 60s onward | VALI MYERS | blissiimo

 

Photo here by "John": Myers as The Witch of Positano, 1970s

Australian-born artist, dancer and muse, Vali Myers spent much of the 1970's in the Hotel Chelsea in NYC. She ran in the group of literati that included Tennessee Williams, Salvador Dalí, Django Reinhardt, Jean Cocteau, Patti Smith, Jean Genet, Sam Shepard and many others.

Chris Stein, guitarist for Blondie, and his wife Barbara, named their daughter after Vali Myers, after Stein got to know her at the Chelsea. Her room at the Chelsea frequently had visitors, including Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs and Abbie Hoffman.

Patti Smith was so smitten with her persona, that she let Myers tattoo a lightning bolt on her knee ⚡

While staying in Paris during the '50’s, journalist George Plimpton wrote about Myers that she was the “restless, confused, vice-enthralled demimonde that populated certain cafés on the Left Bank”. Plimpton promoted her paintings in the same article. In Positano, Italy, where she stayed a bit, the locals were both enthralled and terrified of her, labeling her "The Witch of Positano."

Myers died of cancer in 2003 at age 72.

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