Showing posts with label Inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inspiration. Show all posts

Sunday, July 31, 2011

I wish...

... i could go for a shopping trip in my dream last night. Just tried to do some sketches to remember, but there were elements of a new collection in there. Was a beautiful dream... i could fly and i was recording the golden hour, panning the countryside with my camera eyes, tracing architecture from the primitive to the now on a long windy horizon line, grass thatched huts to sky scrapers. Was nuts. This futurism you speak of, well I wish they made a gadget to record your dreams. The dresses were futurist folk, some quite couture and sculpted, others more loose and voluminous with elaborate embroidery in panels and cut-out shapes forming patterns on the skin. It wouldn't be the first time I've dreamed about clothes then used it as inspiration for a collection. 'I gave my love a papercut' began as a dream.

Until they invent a contraption to permeate our dreams and document them ( stranger things have happened, the Jetsons was not that far off huh? ) this blog entry will remain without pictures, just fading imagery that pop back to haunt me, in a nice way... x


Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Mexico oh oh


Bubble gum tree trunks in Morelia & cactus hands saluting from the cliffs of Playa de Los Muertos, morning mud packs for your toes & evening rainbows after the monsoonal showers, beaches with more bird prints then human feet & wind swept rocks... mariachi serenaders & lycra clad luchadores, kids napping on their parents shoulders & gypsy girls ready to attack with heart shaped stickers... hand painted tiles & streets lined with colourful houses & doorways, elaborately decorated ceramics & skeletal tin toy puppets, embroidered necklines & cross stitched shawls, illustrated offerings to the virgin mary & playful piƱatas waiting to be smashed open...























My friend Angie and I used to play a game where we would blink for a moment and our eyes would commit an image to memory when you wished you had a camera to hand. Like when I saw the silver tashed cowboy in Tonala, Guadalajara, with his buttoned up denim shirt tucked neatly into his big buckled belt, all machismo except for a little rainbow neatly embroidered on his pocket. Found myself doing that alot on our travels... but here are some that I did capture...
some random snap shots of Mexico.

The rest I hope to keep for me.
Big thanks to Mister Oh for taking me there...
hope to go back someday
x