why not?

The yummy, playful, delicious Q-Pot jewels…

Posted on June 25th, 2008 by marica zottino
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Beheaded Bambi is finally a fashion icon, thanks to Bambikiller wannabe Giles Deacon. Parents are proud. Unfortunately, singer Lily Allen - Glamour Woman of the Year - couldn’t stand its power… [thanks sydney!]

This is what Giles Deacon said in an interview…
“I also use the internet for imagery. For instance, I used it to find all the images of Bambi that were out there when I was researching our Who Killed Bambi? print,” he says. “I use the internet mostly for photo research, whatever Google chucks up. I probably use Google Images the most.”

And this is probably what he found in his researches…

Posted on June 10th, 2008 by marica zottino
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It’s impossible to sum up in a post the extraordinary career of Yves Saint-Laurent… but I just want to leave my small personal tribute, and please to have an idea of what this man did for fashion take a look at his final show at centre Pompidou in 2002….

Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by marica zottino
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The work of Ritta Päiväläinen, a perfectr mixture of art, photography, research, reflection…

“The main theme and primary driving force of my work is my interest in old clothing. In my photographs, I use discarded clothes from second-hand shops and flea markets. I am interested in old garments, because they carry silent, unknown stories and histories. The unavoidable fact that I will never know the actual stories and personal histories connected with the clothes arouses my curiosity. The clothes remain silent withholding their secrets. Little by little, personal histories are absorbed into the collective history…

…For me, a piece of clothing represents, above all, its former wearer. It tells you that somebody has been present. However, the person who wore it is now gone. The faded colours and tears in the fabric show the signs of the time passed. By freezing the garment or letting the wind fill it with air, I am able to create a sculptural space, which reminds me of its former user. This “Imaginary Meeting” represents, for me, the subtle distinction between absence and presence. “

Posted on May 28th, 2008 by marica zottino
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The fascinating, melancholic, gloomy photographic works by Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison….

“Working in an artistic conceit that dates back into the early history of photography, Robert ParkeHarrison poses in his own photographs, not as a subject for self-portraiture but as an anonymous Everyman figure struggling heroicaly but futilely with the forces of nature in a  drear world. Incorporating aspects of theater,performance art, sculpture, and painting, ParkeHarrison’s haunting, disturbing images trancend the familiar world of conventional photographic representation into surreality and resonate with the force of myth” (read more here)

the passing

low tide 

Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by marica zottino
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“The body’s relation to jewellery”, a fascinating project related to memory and senses by Catarina Hällzon…

“When we remember things, we do that with help from all or senses. We see things, feel things, we smell and we listen. When we meet an object we register the form, the colour, the sound. But we also register how it tasted, how heavy it was to lift and so on. So when we remember things we don’t only recall what a thing looked like, we also remember the effect it had on the body. We remember how the body reacted.

I’m interested in the thing that happens when reality no longer fit into the expected picture.”

Posted on May 8th, 2008 by marica zottino
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“Who hasn’t dreamt of diving in thick chocolate mousse?

… of digging a hide-out in a piece of cheese or fruit…

of skiing down a slope of whipped Chantilly cream?”

Minimiam, by Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle…

Posted on April 21st, 2008 by marica zottino
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The sweet, delicate, melancoholic illustrations by candybird…

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Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by marica zottino
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I’m sorry I have no time to post so often recently but today I came across Moistproduction and it was love at first sight…

Jason Freeney at night develops “works of candy colored madness” and the results are amazing so that I’m posting them twice (here and on whokilledbambi?)

Immaculate confection, 2008

Pneumatic Anatomica, 2007

Posted on March 17th, 2008 by marica zottino
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Robin Barcus is a multi-disciplinary artist with a particular attention to the world of fashion and womanhood… she ” is currently travelling across the United States creating a site-specific, interactive dress sculpture in each State…”

More about the States of dress project at Robin Barcus‘ website or at the project’s blog…

Lily Pad dress, 2000

Willow Creek dress, 2006

Dandelion Dress, 1999

Posted on March 4th, 2008 by marica zottino
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Carl Warner’s photographic landcapes… Things aren’t always what they seem to be…

Posted on February 15th, 2008 by marica zottino
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The sewn collages by Angelika J. Trojinarski…

 

Posted on February 3rd, 2008 by marica zottino
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I was struck Beatrice Morabito’s intense and sensuous photograps of Sybarites, the amazing high-fashion dolls created by Charles Fegen & Desmond Lingard…

“…I’m a Doll, I’m a very special doll ’cause I’m a sYbarite, but I’m a woman too…but the doll and the woman are linked and confused one inside the other…as in a game of Projections and Identifications ( thank you Sigmund Freud). So, is the doll a woman ( that the “real” woman loves ) or is the woman a doll ( that the “real” doll loves)? All the pictures of the “Dolls” have been taken by the Woman, have been taken by Me…

I’m a doll, I’m the woman behind the doll…”

(Beatrice’s picturetrail page and myspace)

Posted on January 23rd, 2008 by marica zottino
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The fascinating Wardrobe of Nature project by Anni Rapinoja…

“…Wardrobe of Nature tells about the polymorphism of the nature and the essence of human being as a part of the nature. To some of the works the shape has been taken from the human world, but the nature is shaping this world as workmate…”

Bilberry

Cowberry

Tea-leaved willow

Posted on January 17th, 2008 by marica zottino
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I’m finally back… with the charming Angel series by Cui Xiuwen…

Angel N.8, C print, 2006

Angel N.11, C print, 2006

Posted on January 7th, 2008 by marica zottino
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Huang Yan, a great Chinese artist, painter, photographer…

“…Huang Yan has abandoned the domain of Chinese symbolism in order to take up visual narrative. This narrative discourse is a system, imagination and coercion, it is the systematic appropriation of the given cultural symbols. He does not tell us a story about China, but is rather in pursuit of a sense of values connected to traditional culture within contemporary society itself, both Chinese and international…”

Dismantle Landscape No.1, 2005

 

 

Chinese Shan-shui Tattoo No.1, 1999

Posted on December 21st, 2007 by marica zottino
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The sophisticated, delicate compositions by Geraldine Georges… 

Posted on December 13th, 2007 by marica zottino
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