In the early 1990s I created a character named “Monique Le Sak”. The world was slowly “recovering” from the 80s and I saw many of my girlfriends divorced and left with no real assets other than the fancy gifts they’d been given over the years. Affairs, prenups, and shark-like divorce attorneys were rampant during an era when marrying money was a woman’s brass ring. Monique Le Sak is one of those women who found herself divorced and with no means to support herself in the lifestyle to which she had become accustomed. I created an extreme pictorial of how someone like this would live and teamed up with master photographer R.O. Bumpass* to bring Monique to life. What you see here is the first half of the story that establishes how Monique is able to survive as a homeless Dallas divorcee. This collection shows where Monique would live, bathe, cook, lounge, and search for work. The second half of the story, which was never shot, would show her valet parking her shopping cart at the Mansion, meeting R.J. Genuine (a supporting role played by a fashion mannequin) at the Mansion bar, the two of them playing tennis, and having him stay the night with her beneath the overpass. The story ends with Monique and R.J. driving off in his exotic convertible. Monique is looking back over her shoulder, into the camera winking, and the trunk sports a “Just Married” sign. Her shopping cart and “will work” sign are discarded by the side of the road and once again Monique is “back in business.” *R.O. Bumpass retired from commercial photography several years back and lives a fairytale life with his wife Laura in Wimberley, Texas. He is currently pursuing his vision of “portraying and celebrating the beauty of the feminine” through photography and art. ©Molly DeVoss. The persons and events in this portrayal are fictitious. No similarity to actual persons or predators, living or dead, is intended or should be inferred. Neither Molly nor R.O. ever married into money! |
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