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Yon Mars works mainly under the influence of planetary transits, Bulgarian darkwave and amphetamine sulfate. She calls William Burroughs, Dimitar Voev, Courtney Love and Robert Mapplethorpe her spiritual parents. She was expelled from an elite high school of applied arts in the tenth grade and then stopped painting with pencil or tempera...
...so she found 25 German porn magazines from the 90s to a trash can in Hadji Dimitar and officially began her career as a scarlet whore - a game with social ideas of vulgarity and every archetypal symbol of girlish virginity, the Scarlet Whore is an almost painful fusion between the hypersexualized beautiful empty-headed woman-doll and the little girl who doesn't apply nail polish and doesn't use hair dye.
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