centre of the centre

back in december, Scout asked me to give them some ideas for my
trend predictions for the next ten years. the origins trend is something i
started to think about during my trip to Armenia this past july. they included
the top bit in their newsletter and i was super excited to see these looks from
the Alexandre Herchcovitch show in São Paulo just this week. i really love
how he mixes references and creates something that is refreshed and seemingly
possible to sport oneself quite easily. so the hair accessorizing begins... oh and
the makeup is quite lovely as well.

as she talks, her lips breath spring roses

during my trip, i became fascinated with religious painting.
from madrid to armenia to italy and my last days in barcelona,
i was seeking them out in museums.
i finally made it to the Uffizi gallery in Florence with my lovely guide,
Caterina, my favourite Fiorentina and among the gems on the walls
we viewed that day, this painting, Primavera by Botticelli really struck me.
i especially loved this detail, where Zephyrus, the god of winds, is in
pursuit of the nymph Chloris and she has vines and flowers coming out
of her mouth toward her Roman counterpart, Flora, the goddess of spring.
i remembered this Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2007 Couture show and
pulled a few images to get me thinking about halloween.
jean paul gaultier spring 2007 couture
botticelli, primavera

swedish fox

in my search for a proper yet nicely coloured backpack, during a ride on the L train, I spotted

one of these babies, the kanken, sported effectively by a swede. produced by fjallraven 

(forgive the lack of proper swedish accents) and made in a variety of colours and a

few different sizes, i think they are brilliant and i plan to pick up the maxi kanken for an 

upcoming trip. i spotted a few in opening ceremony over the weekend and they are also

sold at a few outdoor outfitting outlets online in europe. 

EDIT- i recommend purchasing your kanken at mountain fox

with the pound dollar exchange at the moment, its a deal and they have heaps of colours

opening ceremony is charging well over the recommended and 

even creatures of comfort raised their prices

kankens and a video still from going forth by day, the path by bill viola

the age of antiquity

miu miu spring summer 2009

to me, it feels like ancient columns. structures of grandeur and function in ancient rome.

the pantheon. the forum.

pillars of history, marble and alabaster. with the chips of time and ages past.

the rips and the tearing on the silk and what looks like burlap.

tiered apron shapes, pleats and simple drapery.

the prints are fantastic. from walls and tiles. ageless icons. 

it has a grotesque and raw element to it, made beautiful.

its almost daunting in its amazing fucked up way, similar to roman history-i love it.

of the last time i was in rome, i remember watching the city pass through the bus window,

thinking how its always in a state of falling down and apart and it will always be this way-

somehow this makes it the eternal city?

but also that everywhere there is street art and scribbles of graffiti and what a wild combination

this shocking paint out of spray cans and these age old buildings makes.

with the squiggles of neon pink and blood red orange, it reminds me of rome.

so i feel the ages and i feel rome embodied in this show.

and its wonderful and so italian, something i am happy to see miu miu be at this moment.

the only thing left is everything, the whole.

on tuesday, i went to a pre screening of reprise at the ifc. 

'i wish we could just meet all over again'

sten egil dahl, crystal

'the absolute language - to capture all the worlds nuances'

'out swimming with the commoners'

xxy

i viewed this film a while back, but wanted to catch up on it at least.

an argentine film of a girl born with both sexes. the story compelling and the actress quite good-

i was most struck by the colours and setting of uruguay coastline. it had a salt covered look to 

it- beach comber. 

when i dream it is the same as being awake

javier tellez, letter on the blind, for the use of those who see, 2007, production still

yesterday i went to see the whitney biennial- and found this video work to

be one of the only few worth noting.

tellezs' work was a recreation of the Indian parable, the Blind Men and the Elephant.

Kind of a documentary filmed at the abandoned McKarren pool in Williamsburg, where

six blind people of different walks were all allowed to touch ula, this elephant. 

all of their reactions were drastically different and some being so thoughtful and spot on.

they made me laugh and cry. 

'are you awake in the world?'

if only we could all touch so thoughtfully and lightly as if we were blind.

other notes:

book, james welling, flowers

'the second sentence of everything i read is you'

'leftover remnants of snow'

'give me your everything' 

give me your end

conditions of light within us

'something being massive and losing that feeling as you observe it'

'imaginatively projecting'

door ways

marble - food terrains 

ships

painted fabric

ballet slipper pink

elephants, of course.

wonderland lust

although, at this hour i feel this is a little late in being recorded - 

but i go through the motions of archiving this thought as it

deserves its due credit - alice in wonderland inspirations-

miu miu spring 2008

the cool school

pictured john altoon, craig kauffman, allen lynch, ed kienholz, ed moses, robert irwin, billy al bengston

thursday evening- I saw the documentary about the beginning of the Ferus Gallery and 

modern art late 1950s, early 1960s- here lies the record of my notes and thoughts

-artists and work - ben bartosh/john altoon/ed moses, 'vreeland'

-abstract expressionism to assemblage 

'venice beach was the place to go to and vanish or create new worlds'

'you don't want people to know you are hungry'

-roy lichtenstein, 'white cloud', in personal collection of irving blum

-light, plastic and colour work - candy apple paint jobs, custom car culture, reflection of surface, 

light on colour

-art primarily made in the mind and language as a visual experience (ed ruscha)

'art offers the possibility of love with strangers' -wallace hopps

-cal arts, the last plastic show

-centre pompidou, 2005/06?, LA art show

elemental

as of late, i have been wildly attracted to the periodic table. 

the graphic elements of it - and the extensive amount of knowledge it provides.

rings by ITSNONAME

she's a rainbow

this one has been on my mind awhile. maybe spring 2009. 

going hand in hand with stars and hearts. fantastic whimsical shapes.

beauty influence. prints.

i've died and gone west

a couple things have been pointing back to the left coast- a nostalgia for the 

city of angels in its greatest creative era

its beginning influence as a place to make colours and waves-

modern art, surfers and sea, palm trees and silver screens and jazz

some thoughts on things to come