Hyper Romanticism || Under Reality

Under Reality cover, one of two covers for HUSK S/S '12. More photos soon.

I got an internship with HUSK magazine & am very excited to start working with them.

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The S/S 2012 HUSK deals with the subject of CONFLICT, Hyper Romanticism vs. Under Reality.

'In our biggest issue so far (230 pages!), you will find a special feature on Scandinavian powerhouse ACNE including an interview with Creative Director JONNY JOHANSSON and a preview to their Fall/Winter collections, a conversation with the founder of 10 Corso Como CARLA SOZZANI, a feature on English retail icon TOMMY ROBERTS, a talk with 032c and Interview Germany Editor-in-Chief JÖRG KOCH, insight into the work of New York's design duo ROMAN & WILLIAMS, a visual essay by Art Director MARC ATLAN and also AARON ROSE, AKRAM ZAATARI, MIHARA YASUHIRO, NICOLAS PROVOST, BRIONI, MARY ELLEN MARK & MARTIN BELL, JACK PIERSON and many more.

HARLEY WEIR shot face of Vivenne Westwood DEMPSEY STEWART in a blockbuster 30 page editorial for our cover. THOMAS LOHR was inspired by James Bond for our license-to-kill menswear story, TINA SCHOTT and MARTON PERLAKI fight with the enemy within and the issue also features photography by ARI MARCOPOULOS, MIKAEL SCHULZ, JONATHAN WAITER, ROSA RENDL, JONAS LINDSTROM and many others.'

Go and buy this beautiful zine!

bright blooms

Tank zine, 'Pleasure of Texture'
Photography ~ Pani Paul
Styling ~ Isabelle Sayer
Model & Illustrator ~ Naomi Preizler

new growth

The Room zine #15, 

photography by Emilio Tini

entropy

Occasional Memorial installation by Oona Gardner

- glazed stoneware, live & cut plants, acrylics, plasticine, found objects.

"I made drawings and paintings on the walls and curtain in the gallery space documenting the shadows cast by the live and sculptural plant and cut flower forms. The drawings mark the passage of time, sun during the day and incandescent light at night, as do the plants, some of which started blooming while others slowly wilted and died."

they just happen to be carrying wooden sculptures

Rejina Pyo A/W 2011

I want to own every one of these pieces.

read her interview with anOther

Weekday x Rejina Pyo

"I try to apply colours like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music"

Happy Birthday to Miró! Born today in 1893 (-1983)



One of Miró's collages, 1933 // 'Femme et Oiseaux dans la Nuit', 1945 // At home in his studio in Palma, 1977.

the tomb, the womb, the hidden time

Needless to say, I was very excited to discover the jewellery designs of Seb Brown ; delicate and intricate yet rough, organic and very much like dug up archaeological relics, together with the stones, metals - silver and bronze - and triangular shapes. However, when I stumbled across an interview with him, I found out his background is primarily in graphic design - his website certainly displays a multitude of  creative ventures; installations, illustrations, paintings and other commissioned projects...

^ Jewellery installation at Alice Euphemia, a boutique in Melbourne.

sand, silver, stone, perspex, silk, plaster, concrete, paper

Inspired by the textures and forms of flora and geology, Seb's primary fascination centers around the exploration into how people from ancient civilizations have developed their own unique aesthetics without the presence of any outside influence. He also studies the different forms of body adornment throughout history and the notions behind the value given to precious objects.

--- never too many ringzz ---

>> title from some lecture notes I'm revising on Christian art / late antiquity. Love how poetic it sounds.

transitional states of the psyche

"Rachel Niffenegger is an artist based in Chicago, IL USA. Her sculptures and paintings transcribe the figure in transitional states: between being and ghost image; statuesque and the formless; two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces. Her effigies are created, manipulated and destroyed through ritual; torsos are cracked, propped up and covered, faces are absorbed and embedded in cloth, and paint is picked off and reapplied to appendages. These objects are material gestures of the psyche fulfilling the necessity to make solid objects as a permeable and porous body. Materials travel between objects and are generated through discarded works as she employs spray-painted polystyrene, sawdust, concrete, ash, hair, plaster, and paint skins." via arcademi

looking for the sun

^ Building Blocks ~ 'collages, soon to be sculptures'

Malin Gabriella Nordin is inspired by rocks & stones and stones & rocks. Her practice is wholly focused upon what seems to be a very banal subject, yet she explores & interprets these little objects of the everyday in every way, shape & form, in a multitude of different mediums - drawing, collaging, sculpting, painting - transforming them into things of utter fascination & intrigue.

“I usually use fashion magazines for my collages because they have the most images with interesting textures or patterns. But when I go to flea markets, I often find these books of stone collections. Sometimes when I buy the books I think they are too nice to cut up, so if I do cut stones out, I save the remaining pages.

In my work, I’m trying to create my own ideas and rules about things I can’t understand, so as to not feel so small. Sometimes I try to imagine objects and surroundings with no actual boundaries, with all of the atoms and molecules blending together, and then I make new shapes from them, or put them together in a different way.”

I love the textures & forms of her collages that also translate so well into her sculptures. She also injects a certain kind of spirituality into her work by exploring the very essence - the shapes, uses, properties, colours, textures, of the rocks and stones. & this is one of her recommended websites which makes her very cool in my books.

Read an interview here & visit her tumblr