Daisy Iverson is from New York, she’s 5 foot 5 and has curly brown hair. Her eyes are brown as well. She regularly wears brown chelsea boots with black skinny jeans and has a colorful rotation of t-shirts and blouses. Most of them ranging from abstract designs to ironic political ideologies. She’s a Libra and works at a tattoo parlor. Her hobbies include biking, baking, and rollerskating. Her parents made sure that Daisy had a sense of independence, and that she wouldn’t feel compelled to marry out of loneliness. She’s been living with her two friends from college for the past 5 years, and is beginning to wonder if it’s time to move on. In high-school Daisy wanted to be a doctor, but failed her first chemistry class and figured that science of any kind wasn’t for her. This allowed her to focus heavily on her artwork, which mainly consisted of watercolor landscape paintings, and pencil sketches. Daisy never showed the watercolors to anyone, and kept them hidden away in her closet, and would only take them out when she was depressed. When Daisy got a tattoo of a shooting star on her right forearm for her 17th birthday, she knew she found a new passion. She became an amateur tattoo artist a year later, and got a job as an apprentice at a parlor in the east village. Daisy’s favorite artist is Joan Mitchell, because she finds her brush strokes to be elegant and freeing. She was never extracted to how reflective some artists are of the world around them. She gets bored of the routine and skill it takes to translate something real onto paper. She feels that art is better when it takes you into a different world. Daisy felt that way whenever she sat by the arches at Washington Square Park, one of her favorite places in the city. She loved walking through them, imagining going through a portal between each pier, and walking out with her worldview somehow changed.
Pierce Manning grew up in San Diego, California. His mother, Sasha, stayed at home and took care of Pierce and his two sisters, Monica and Alice. Pierce’s father, David, worked in an underground mine shaft. David devoted most of his time to bars and the mine shaft, and only showed interest in Pierce when discipline was requested by his mother. By age 16 Pierce started calling his father David, who didn’t seem to care. His interests include pencil drawings, chess, and reading on the bus on the way to work at a street vendor, selling sliced mangos on the boardwalk, a job he took on straight out of high-school. Pierce hardly passed school and could never stand taking orders, so when his friends went to work at burger places and as mechanics, Pierce went to his favorite place in the city, the boardwalk. Pierce’s favorite artist is Andy Warhol, purely because of how his work reflected his environment. Pierce doesn’t enjoy the distractions of popular culture. He feels that most of what is considered popular is as good as junk food. It’s this perception that drew Pierce so closely to Warhol’s work. When looking at Warhol’s paintings, Pierce didn’t feel so bad about all the praise and consumption of American culture, and accepted its nature. One of the reasons Pierce enjoys the boardwalk so much is the view of the beach. Mostly because he just can’t stand the boring, square buildings of San Diego. Pierce had always wished that the city was made up of castles with iconic sculptures at each tower. That way they could be there for the people to enjoy, rather than strictly for commercial purposes.
