Tepper remembers designing “Hallelujah the Pill!!” on the floor of an apartment she shared with a friend. Tepper was 19, her roommate was just 16, and that girl’s boyfriend was a 20-year-old named Bobby Beausoleil, who was trying to recruit Tepper’s young roommate to join his friends in the Manson family, even as he was trying to seduce Tepper.
Fortunately, neither woman succumbed to Beausoleil’s creepy advances; two years later, Beausoleil would be arrested for murder at the height of Helter Skelter hysteria, and he is still serving a life sentence for his crime. As Tepper told Morley, Beausoleil stood over her while she worked—we can practically picture him licking his lips—as she painted copulating couples in vivid Luma dyes. “I was sitting on the floor doing this poster, which was very erotic, so it made me feel quite vulnerable,” she said.
Source: Collectors Weekly
Aaand Mari Tepper was inspired by Egon Schiele and his sexy zombies. That’s why I love it so much!
