Alejandro & Pascale Jodorowsky | Honey In All Hues, All Forms

Via Issue 193, The Gold Standard Issue

Written by Augustus Britton

Photographed by Abi Polinskynull

“In order to find magic you have to believe in it,”says Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky, the other half of Alejandro Jodorowsky. “Magic is all around us. You need to open yourself to that.” 

Magic. Of course. This isn’t really about art. This is about magic. The magic of pascALEjandro.

Who are they? Friends? Collaborators? Lovers that met later on in life? A vision of hope?

It’s a love story as fascinating as any of their paintings. If you can believe it, for a moment, Alejandro is just a day younger than Pascale’s father, which was enough for the father to allow his daughter’s hand to be relinquished in marriage. This is what great novels are written about. Truth vastly stranger than fiction. Truth apropos to every shred of film or drop of paint the two of them have shed in their art. They walk with hands touching, they speak with voices wrapped around one another.

“We are half a person. People, in general, are half a person. We are not a complete person,” says the legendary auteur, Alejandro, holding the hand of his beloved Pascale, “We are not everything, we are half, and we need that person to find the other half. Every human being needs to have a real love, and I don’t mean a romantic love, I mean a real love, and a real love is when the two hearts start to go together.”

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