My name is Victor Marzowicz-Velasquez, and befitting my vocation as an artist-activist knight errant, I was born on Michaelmas — 29 September 1970 — in Waterbury, Connecticut. My current home-base is midtown Manhattan, where I live with my husband and collaborator Raul. We are currently immersed in a large-scale environmental project, reclaiming a big rock that I hold sacred as “home.”
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The Haunt of Victory 
Hello Victor!
I’ve been ‘lurking’ on TMF and various boards at IMDB for quite some time and just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your posts and your wit! Your posts have actually inspired me to do more reading on Dali myself – and for that, I am grateful and now fully immersed in a fabulous and complicated life!
I graduated with a degree in Art History, and am working on my Masters while working in the film industry- so I constantly seek any sort of film portraying artists and the loves and circumstances that have inspired their works. The most intriguing part of art is the Social History and Personal influences that drove the Artists themselves.
Until I read your entries on Dali; I only lurked because most of the posting had to do with Robert Pattinson and how ‘hot’ he is! Which, of course, he is… without a doubt! But 90% of his fan base seems to be tween girls that just want to discuss if he is naked or how he’s naked, or anything to do with naked!
I am just so very much looking forward to this movie, and I am enjoying all of your contributions that are fueling my anticipation even more!
Thanks again for everything and for single handedly introduced the complex world of Dali to me, until now – I’ve only ever touched the surfaced of the man and his art.
Kimi
Hi Kimi!
Thanks for such a nice comment. I’m not a huge fan of Dalí’s — he more or less leaves me cold — but obviously, I find him a fascinating case, a sphinx without a riddle. But, in any case, I’m glad I’ve been able to encourage some young people to dig deeper into this story. Like you, I find the deeper issues surrounding their lives and works very interesting and even inspirational.
Hi Victor – I feel like a silly fangirl writing to you, but I’ve realized I’ve been chasing you down the path you’ve beaten across the ‘net. In anticipation of “Little Ashes,” I’ve given myself over to the mania of learning all I can about the true story here. There’s something so sad to it, and so touching that it haunts me. It’s become, in my mind, a parable of what happens to a person when they choose to live a life that is inauthentic – and what is risked sometimes by being true to yourself. To live a long but hollow life of acclaim — or a rich and meaningful but too-short one that seems to have brought so much heartache. It leaves me with a myriad of “what ifs” and at the root of it, I guess, makes me wonder how much I’ve held true to my ideals and how much I have sold out myself.
I’m not sure even why I’m writing to you. I suppose I just felt I had to.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with everyone.
Thanks so much, Barbara, for your thoughtful words. I have to admit Lorca always makes me question my own courageand how much I’m willing to risk in using my work with an eye toward social change, and I always come up short.
Hi Victor,
Hi Victor,
First of all, thank you so much to post the very beautiful writing in here. I am a fan of “Little Ashes” and really want to know more about the relationship between Lorca and Dali. Fortunately, I found your website that give me a very good information that I really want to know. I read most of the article that relate two Lorca and Dali that I can found in your page. I also agree with your opinions that you give in your article. For me, Lorca is very charm sweet and also has the strong mind and will. In addition, I feel really pity to Dali the reason is I think I can understand what he felt and how much he tried “even it not work”. After I read his biography, I think Dali still love Lorca until the end of his life.(Am I wrong?) I really feel like his soul was died with Lorca. I also think something about the reason that he’s still alive while his heart already died is Lorca. The reason is he is the only one who still speaks about Lorca while Lorca was banned. Then he kept the relationship between them in mystery to make people curious. This make the interviewers still ask him and try to find out the truth. Then wait until Lorca work can publish, so people still know who Lorca is. This is all I can thinking of. It might be wrong, but I am pretty sure that Dali still loves Lorca until the end of his life and. This make me feel really depress and pity to Dali. Even he is the one who run away, but he is the man who really deeply in love with Lorca. I think you right Victor; Dali is the man with the brain contrast to Lorca, So Dali always thinks too much. If I were a man who terrified of being touch, I might do the same thing with him. It doesn’t mean I don’t love my lover, but I don’t want him to live unhappily with me while I can’t let him touch me. However, I still have the question about “Is Lorca still love Dali in his last two year while he already have his new boyfriend?”. I am really curious about this truth now, but I don’t know the answer yet. Could you help to clarify me?
Thank you again for your beautiful writing and information in web page. Cheer!!!
(Sorry If you can’t understand my writhing cause I am not good in English)