IN THE E it all came together. “the food was beautiful, the paper goods were gorgeous. All of this great magic happened. Everybody brought great stuff and turned it into a dream come true. It was a good vibe.” A line printed on the Darko Weirdo invitation —“everybody is somebody else’s weirdo”— brings to mind a quote from Dr. seuss, a famously fanciful artist himself: “We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” When it comes to Noa, whether it’s her dinner party, her digs, her photographs, or her daily life, this perspective on weirdness seems to sum things up perfectly. there is something worth celebrating in uniqueness, in oddities, in the wonderful, and in the freaky. “I’m interested in people who are different and colorful and eccentric; it’s beautiful to me,” she says, “but you also start to realize that everyone is exactly the same, no matter how they live, or dress, or what type of personality they have: everyone is ‘normal,’ everyone is crazy, everyone can be boring, everyone can be fascinating, and every single soul has an inner-freak.”
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