Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Current work.
During my last project, I learned a lot about my aesthetic impulses. Not sure if they are forever, but because I was being so OCD and hyper-critical about everything these past few months, along with not talking to teachers about it, certain realizations came to fruition. I guess it heightened what I already knew, but now I just know for sure that I can't (as in really, really don't want to) design without cool color combinations or really interesting surface elements. I become obsessed with making it a tactile experience and creating what hasn't been seen before. Maybe I am ready to form a more definitive "artist statement"...
Finishing up Paris...
So I just ended my "studies" here in Paris at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and it has certainly been conflicting. I feel like a lot about my world view, dreams, and ambitions got flipped upside down, but I guess that's just "life." Ugh. Well, anyway... here are the best things that happened to me while here, and it's funny because they don't really involve the city or fashion, but more like what just happened due to me being here:
1. Got introduced to Steve Roggenbuck by a great new (America, ha) friend, and therefore alt lit (esp. Tao Lin and Jordan Castro) as a result of further, obsessive research.
2. Became obsessed with Harmony Korine and Spring Breakers. I honestly think seeing that movie was and will be one of the truest highlights of 2013. I really, really respect his philosophies and aesthetic, so glad he came into my life <3 nbsp="" p="">
3. Boardwalk Empire !!! Interest in early America, as well.
Also, new/foreign (therefore cool & intimidating as hell) people aren't nearly as mean as you think. They were so helpful and it's important to be open-minded to this for the rest of my life. It will make new places so much less daunting.
You have to make things happen. They aren't gonna happen for you, I know this because I was thrown into the most typically 'perfect' situation -- fashion school in PARIS-- and ended with disappointment. You really have to stay aware and make sure you don't slack when opportunities are presented, even though it's really hard, especially if it's in your nature to rebel.
1. Got introduced to Steve Roggenbuck by a great new (America, ha) friend, and therefore alt lit (esp. Tao Lin and Jordan Castro) as a result of further, obsessive research.
2. Became obsessed with Harmony Korine and Spring Breakers. I honestly think seeing that movie was and will be one of the truest highlights of 2013. I really, really respect his philosophies and aesthetic, so glad he came into my life <3 nbsp="" p="">
3. Boardwalk Empire !!! Interest in early America, as well.
Also, new/foreign (therefore cool & intimidating as hell) people aren't nearly as mean as you think. They were so helpful and it's important to be open-minded to this for the rest of my life. It will make new places so much less daunting.
You have to make things happen. They aren't gonna happen for you, I know this because I was thrown into the most typically 'perfect' situation -- fashion school in PARIS-- and ended with disappointment. You really have to stay aware and make sure you don't slack when opportunities are presented, even though it's really hard, especially if it's in your nature to rebel.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
Design 5/Portfolio Inspirations
Well, it's that time of year again....
1. Topiaries (a continuation of what I was doing/exploring in textiles). Plants, their bold patterns created in aerial views of garden formations, a possible allusion to old english dress or the court of versailles.
2. Pomegranates. Their veiny structure and peircing, exotic red color. Will be very queer looking, surreal, and textural.
3. Fraktur font. This one could be fun, since my interest in typography over these past couple months has really taken fire. The darting angles and curves of the letters, the drama, and old German feeling that this font conjures is very interesting to me. Could do very dark, delve into deeper subject matter.
4. Holden. Frickin'. Caulfield. ((good excuse to re-read Catcher)) Honestly, I feel like he is one of the only people that could ever understand me or at least not judge me and my apparent negativity and 'language' problem.
Pics to come soon. Or maybe not.
Current Inspirations:
-David Foster Wallace
-shoulder length hair or slightly longer
-barren faces
-loners
-getting the fuck out
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Design 4 Inspirations
I have mentally compiled a list of possible design 4 inspirations... now they are cyberly compiled.
-picture by jennifer mehigan
*Hotel Oloffson (in Haiti, as seen in Hamilton's zombie special) There are many interesting shapes, cutouts (my favorite), and foliage juxtaposition. I could use Addams family references (Wednesday as a muse, yes???) and I love how Hamilton described it as a "giant haunted doily"
^Hamilton Morris and chemistry/psychedelia/numbersss
#fly fishing flies (they are sooo cool and colorful, i think they look like little aquatic wizards) and Into the Wild/the Alaskan terrain as the ultimate destination for brave, transcendental Aquarian adventurers.
&needlepoint-- what if there was a fabric that was just all needlepoint? like, a repeat of needplepointed roses, dogs, clouds, pumpkins etc. Using the Pointillistic sensibilities and combine it with a True Grit kind of feeling.
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