flowers on fire

Bright moments always lead to gloomy moments in my life. Never opposite...

Again I have a feeling that I’m participating in a Greek tragedy. Really unthinkable coincidences have led me to even more unthinkable situations. At the moment, I’m really fed up with walking, searching calling… Again I’m at crosswords when it comes to my professional life and other aspects too. And more and more questions are arising staying unanswered...

The situation repeats itself year after year actually. There’re two months left to my birthday and in May I’m always a bit down and it’s not a question of growing old, to tell the truth I wouldn’t like to be younger even one day. The thing is though I must admit I’m successful a list of successes always seems shortish somehow and I have a sensation of wasted time.

And now, honey, I'm not going any further...Now I want to stop. Going this path's too painful and tiresome. I’ll rather stay here withering instead.

This post is dedicated to my friend Dag, who can read between the lines though not always gets my metaphors ;P Hope the desert-like-feeling making us two flowers on fire will go away soon. That’s my wish for our birthdays :*

Oh...
 PS. Dag, you're such an angel and I'm such a rebel, I've always been a rebel... but now we feel the same. I still have a gallon of petrol and a box of matches. Let's set fire to this shitty world, Mon Amie!!

Double Trouble-Death & Taxes

There is something wrong and dense in the air this month. Everything is off the right tracks or is leading to dead ends. All people close to me are suffering one way or another. It’s so difficult to breathe… and there is nothing, absolutely nothing you may hold on to. And no way out… 

poster by Lex Drewiński, stgu.pl/lex-is-more

Melvin Sokolsky "Du Taxi", http://ana-lee.livejournal.com/168272.html

In moments like this the lines from the song "Lasagna" by the Knife keep echoing in my head. 

You could have locked yourself up

 For ten years or so

And when you finally came out

There would still be no chances for you

I look for moves and I search for breaths

And it leaves me

Thinking about death

For me it's like a prophecy I'm most afraid of. 

Recently, I’ve come across a song by Sarah Blasko that fits here perfectly.  

Despite of problems of other nature I have to pay a few hundred zloty of taxes. And what for? Mainly for doing jobs I don’t feel like doing. Everything seems uncertain only death and taxes are two certainties in life ;) 

Pictures below are supposed to show a binary system in which troubles love to pop up ;) 

Louise Dahl-Wolf (1895-1989),
Twins at the Beach, 1955, http://arts-jumeaux-doubles.blogspot.com/2012_11_01_archive.html

a fragment of photo by Łukasz Osuch, binary dresses by me

All in all, dog years are not over yet...

poster by Lex Drewiński, http://stgu.pl/lex-is-more

Where is my rifle?!  

Let me finish this post with special thanks to ~katjaLuv for making me believe that I make "good stuff" :) I  r e a l l y needed that, kid! :glomp:

I'm All Ears!

Today post is supposed to be about ears... Though it's just a pretext to write about something completely else ;)

Here I'd like to refer to a film that makes all my senses happy. It's "Intouchables".What's the most extraordinary about this film is that it tells a true story! J'adore! I've remembered it 'cause my favourite scene is connected with ears.

 


I really wanted to upload here the song titled "Takiego Chłopaka" by Mikromusic but for some reason I can't so the link must do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOG988efJYE
I love this song. It's the best 'prayer' I've ever heard and so hillarious and so true... and that sweet sweet voice, balm to my ears... <3

http://zoofashion.blogspot.com/2009/10/does-it-even-matter-what-kind-of-ears.html

I wouldn't mind if the fate sent me such a boy! ;)

Good & Beautiful

This post was supposed to be an outlet for my frustration on Polish competitions for fashion designers especially on Golden Thread. Last year the organizors really goofed up announcing one designer to be the winner while the another actually won. This year they want to cover the bad impression by inviting Kasia Tusk to the jury!!! A round of applause, please! :> For me it's like covering the bad impression with the even worse one. If this competition and other ones aim to at least to pretend to be professional invite E X P E R T S to the jury at last! Not so-called trend setters or silly celebrities or teen bloggers but EXPERTS: fashion photographers, other designers, costumers... But I know that's just a wishful thinking. That's why I'm finishing the issue here and taking up the new one the actual subject of this post.

Recently, I've come across breathtaking works by Motohiko Odani.

http://www.journal-du-design.fr/index.php/art/art-sculptures-par-motohiko-odani-14129

And that's something that's really worth attention!

http://www.yousaytoo.com/sources/daily-creativity-|-creative-stuff-from-around-the-globe/199890

I've taken up French again. I'm fantasizing I was born in Paris and I've never even visited Poland... 

I'm going to be good and beautiful... F O R E V E R that's my plan...

I've placed here a link to the fragment of the film titled "The Piano" 'cause I had some R E A S O N S;) Namely, this film is good and beautiful and it was a great inspiration for me to take two photos I've presented in this post.

The Green Tea Bride

The Green Tea Bride, 2006 by Kimiko Yoshida, 

Kimiko Yoshida over the seven years was taking self-portraits, themed "brides" my favourite one is "The Green Tea Bride". 

The Mao Bride, 2006, Kimiko Yoshida

The Cyber Bride, 2003 by Kimiko Yoshida

The topic Kimiko Yoshida used in her photos made me reflect on weddings... I hate weddings. I loath them!!! No matter what a convence of wedding reception a young couple chooses it's always dull and grotesque.

Kimiko Yoshida

Kimiko Yoshida

 http://xaxor.com/creative/21161-self-portraits-by-kimiko-yoshida-part-3.html

Kimiko Yoshida

 http://www.mep-fr.org/evenement/kimiko-yoshida

The only way to save your party is to invite Kimiko Yoshida. I will, I will ;)

Women Rule!

photo by Magdebursky, my collar :)

This post was intended for yesterday but yesterday I had no access to the Internet all day long. But in this case a date doesn't matter since I'm writing about a thing that on the 9th of March is still true :)

In the first place, I'd like to refer to women who are named almost the same like me; two Lygias: Lygia Pape and Lygia Clark.

Lygia Pape is most famous for this work:

Lygia Pape - DIVISOR, 1968, Tecido

 http://brmenosmais.blogspot.com/2010/08/lygia-pape-divisor.html

Lygia Pape, Ttéia, Biennale de Venise

Love is so difficult to catch, isn't it? ;)  Lygia somehow managed :)

 And now Lygia Clark is coming! :)

http://www.paris-art.com/agenda-culturel-paris/I%20Heart%20Lygia%20Clark/Manzetti-Barbara/10817.html

Dialogue of Hands, http://bodytracks.org/2009/06/lygia-clark-and-helio-oiticica-dialogo-de-manos-dialogue-of-hands

     


And at the end Shirin Neshat with her "explosive" materials ;)



http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/asked-and-answered-shirin-neshat



And again Peter inspired me to writing this post. Thank U, Peter :)*
Song for you sung by the greatest woman of all :)

Hang by a Thread

http://culturenova.com/Chiharu-Shiot

Some time ago a friend of mine noticed how much I loved working with threads. Looking at one of my works he recollected Chiharu Shiota. The best work, according to me, is presented above.

http://comment7.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/dans-les-robes-membraniques-de-chiharu-shiota

http://culturenova.com/Chiharu-Shiota

 I'm dealing more with fashion objects at the momemnt but it's quite likely that I end up cocooning pianos and other stuff with a thread too ;) 

http://the3200.blogspot.com/2010/12/chiharu-shiota-at-nada-art-fair-in.html

 

http://culturenova.com/Chiharu-Shiota

Graphene - revolution in Fashion

Graphene,the worlds' thinnest, carbon-based material discovered at The University of Manchester in 2004 caused great excitement among scientists. Nine years later it causes great excitement in me!  Though graphene is nothing else but a single sheet of graphite its properties are completely different. It perfectly combines mechanical, electrical and thermal conductivity. Electrons building graphene show great mobility which gives enormous prospects for production of electronic devices of minute sizes with superior performance. Graphene is very likely to squeeze silicone out!

To my surprise there haven’t really been any groundbreaking uses of graphene in fashion yet. Only Alistair Carr seemed to replicate the structure of monolayer graphene in one of his collections and that's it. 

source: http://irenebrination.typepad.com/irenebrination_notes_on_a/2012/06/honeycomb-structures-graphene.html

And that's it!?! 


Must have it! :) Must do it something about it!

Future looks bright! ;)

I'll Vogue U Up!

http://www.vogue.it/en/photovogue/Portfolio/9c8862a4-dfcc-4b26-a5d6-143a0b96c92f/Image

It's my premiere in Vogue! I know that one swallow does not make a summer but I hope this publication means hossa in my professional life. For sure I'm going to keep such a level. I'll nail myself or use a sticky tape to not go lower! ;)

Photo: “The open square", Komische Oper, Berlin, 2-5-11-27/12; 2-11/1 (staatsballett- berlin.de; photo courtesy Enrico Nawrath).

VOGUE,2012, N.748

 About two months ago I designed a double dress (photos soon!) to my surprise I found a double jacket in the latest issue of Italian Vogue. Coinsidence? ;)