processes

i would like to learn how to screen print and/or silk screen

or that photo cyanotype thingty

and transfer renaissance humanist paintings onto tights or stockings!!!

Pieter Bruegel

Love Letter #1: There is Beauty in the Handmade

To the Good People of the Earth,

HEY THERE! I hope ya'll are having a festive and convival summer. With the Summer-filled surrogation to Fall and the Halloween holiday quickly ascending upon us, I find myself reminiscing to mind the many blessings and bestowments of the past. I suppose having matriculated to my twenty-third year has provided me with a depth of insight which I am only beginning to excavate. This project "Wolf Moon" is a handmade and vintage endeavor about special memories, family, animals, traveling, and folklore. Have you ever taken an old and discarded object, and used it to prove how amazing the world is?

That is how I feel about fabric. I am pleased as punch when I am surrounded by simple things that have a lot to say. Toilet Paper. My Grandpa's Glasses. Old Sweaters. Cups of Water. Shadows. (All these things represent timelessness, antiquity and sustainability.) There is beauty in the Handmade

Since the month of May I have been reconstructing and deconstructing old raggedy sweaters over and over. It gets annoying alot, making sewing mistakes, sewing up the seams, pulling out the seam. But I pick up that Godforsaken Needle and try again. To those who have been handpicked for this project: Your role is important and necessary. You are the purveyors of folkore. As role models, you will wear the clothes and be placed in an environment that speaks of the past (in a present sort of way). You will embody things within places that are suppose to be lost. For example, the Zapatista Movement, the Filipinos Struggle for Self-Determination and Democracy, the struggle for human rights and dignity; the Palestinians struggle for Equality, Peace, Land, Freedom. You will embody the Animal Spirits that watch over us and guide us. You will represent indigenous cultures on the brink of extinction. New deadline for this photog thingy. Sept 10th. I will have already sketched out the sets for the photoshoots by then. This project will also be in the Summer 2012 Zine I'm gleaning together as we speak. The Zine will also be called Wolf Moon and be devoted to lost or forgotten things and also found objects.

Ruminations are particularly profound when one begins to notice:

every piece plays a

unique role in the fabric of

humanity.

So until around September 10th, here is my pledge to ya'll readersp: you can count on me to be truthful and certifiable in giving honest-to-goodness scoop in two weeks. I will need to be taking your measurements and such before then.

Isulong,, ,,, ,,,The Awkward Pedestrian :)

----Wolff mMoon----

style and spiritual politics

The most frustrating things about sewing sweaters has to be the fact that I have no idea what I'm doing.

sewing from the S(o)u(l)

summer sweater project

Speaking about a Blessing and a Curse: I hate being experimental. Being experimental means i'm always trying to embolden the original thought. My mind enters this mode of expansion and contraction. Everything is Everywhere. Everything is Nowhere. Everything is Lost. Everything is Found. Everything Is. And Everything Isn't. Everything is Illuminated. And Everything is in Darkness.

Creating is like giving birth.

To not be fully organized, to contain the chaos, to develop ideas. This is the struggle of the artist. haha. no, really.

Personally, this sweater thingy is the first project where i'm going to try and implement """time management""" because I would like to follow through with my ideas and meet my deadlines. Managing time is so strange and new to me. I believe there is no time, and time itself was just something fabricated to make sense of the spaces we inhabit. But in any event, and under the current human circumstances, knowing time and living by it is necessary. ;( ;( ;(

this s u m m e r,
one of my main projects is to sew up a bunch of old sweaters and make them look all folksy and shitty in a good way

C O L LEC TING MATERIALS
from may 22-29, i went to a bunch of not-so-random places and found good random&ODD materials @ Crimsom and Clover (16th, bn P & Q). I saw Kara working that day and we talked about the different Saints on this saint charm bracelet I found. Here are some pieces I hunted and gathered that day and some time before:

(P.S. ---- did you know there was a Patron Saint of Cars?)

(P.S. ---- Crimsom&Clovis got cheap stuff if you dig deep and go during sale time. i got hella notions and bits and bobs for like $2 Dineroz!!!)

THOUGHT THINKERING THOUGHT
A rundown of last week and where this project is going:

[i would like to deconstruct a sweater to understand what makes it a sweater
] [i likeyyyy those doily circle tangs cuz they can B cut
and sewn in so many neat ways! ] [continue sewing
dioly tangs tangz on sweaters while watching DVDs] [trace names of revolutionaries and sew them on] [add geometric
shapes] [take classes at Meisners and
learn to sew better like a PROPOR PORKCHOP] [sew one sweater by Saturnday 8pm] [i
like James Luna, look him up] [Deadline for 5
sweatarrrz will be August 5, 5pm] [learn the basics
of silkscreen] [maybe silkscreen can be a good way to
add syntax to the fabric??] [WHOA, SYNTAX might be a
good name for this project] [come up with name for this project!]

AWKWARD NOTATIONS
RANDOM STORES WITH INTERESTING VISUAL DISPLAYS

Also went to Mission and Valencia and finally brows'd The Painted Biiiiiiird , this place was decent in pricewise and so LA, but hipster misappropriations of Native American Art????the headdress? such a stereotypically cultural misappropriation, i mean use it in context and provide some sort of creative insight into the tribe who wears the headdress instead of just using it as a misinformed visual. BUT i did like the way the store was set up, same goes for The Bell Jar

A Lamp and I Making Conversation, The Painted Bird, 2011

the above picture is a good way to make a statement