What I’m up to this week…
Working on…
I have lots of mini-projects on the go at the moment! YouTube is taking up a considerable amount of time/energy/attention, of course, but I also have many other irons in the fire. I just made a gorgeous zine as a special treat for the Friends of The Haus, and that got me stuck in to making collage again which I am loving! I’m also quietly working away on a documentary-style video about the Things Men Have Said To Me Instead Of Hello collection.
I’m part-way through making another beautiful art book about my Flourishing collection, and I’ve started planning out the next art experience for you all - this time I’m taking inspiration from film noir, and I’m having a whale of a time sourcing props (such as a pillbox hat with a veil and a metric fuck ton of plastic beetles).
It’s been such an enormous pleasure (and privilege) to wander into the studio and just pick whichever project feels like the most fun that day.
Thinking about…
My next collection. Not that I’m getting pulled into to something new just yet, but there are definitely some disparate threads of inspiration being woven together in my subconscious at the moment.
I’ve known for a while that it’s probably going to be something about the body - following on from what I started to explore in pieces like Fetish/Phobia and A Keen Eye For Detail in the Things Men Have Said To Me Instead Of Hello collection.
Last weekend we went to see an exhibition of Basquiat’s works on paper (see the image above), which were all drawings of the head, richly layered with anatomical renderings combined with machinery and robots. It really sparked something and I can definitely feel the creative well beginning to fill back up again, drop by drop. Watch this space 😜.
Reading…
Human Rites by Juno Dawson
A great finale to the Her Majesty’s Royal Coven series. It’s a lovely, queer, feminist, witchy romp - excellent comfort reading for when you need a classic good-vs-evil, triumphing-over-adversity type story.
Watching…
Beauty Blueprint YouTube channel
I’ve really been enjoying this channel lately. Each episode is a little potted history of an interesting and unusual woman (such as PJ Harvey, Courtney Love, and Daphne Guinness), through the lens of how they have chosen to present themselves visually.
It’s a wonderful insight into how clothes and style can be used as a tool to signify identity, belonging and/or difference - something which is never far from my mind, but particularly this week as I am in the middle of a fabulous email exchange with one of you (you know who you are) about how we present our ‘difference’ externally. I’m pretty sure I’ll be making a video about this subject soon!
Basquiat’s heads at Louisiana Museum
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