Expect the unexpected

So quickly, retrospect. This time last year I was on the east coast, working for a Japanese cultural non-profit, getting ready for graduate school, anxiety ridden with how I was gonna make my creative outlets work, while my good friends made a leap of faith to move far west, leaving our art collective few remaining members.

Less worry today, no more grad school, new non-profit with work I enjoy & mission I can get behind, living at the gate to the mid-west, I was given an opportunity to open up another art collective with a business plan. See Burgheoisie

Truly grateful for the gifts & the glowing horizon helping my forward motion. Still trying to catch a glimpse beyond this passage, hoping I get a clue how the sustainable, water-friendly apparel-design & production studio will look like or a tip how it’ll come about. Considering going for another grant opportunity to get that studio together.

In the meantime, I’m working at being a buyer for the pop-up store, merchandising & window display, and reminding myself the pleasure in sharing the benefits of local shopping & social causes with others.

Austin’s Weird & Wonderful Shopping

Las Cruxes Lovely find inside a court yard of a dive cafe & bar called Spider House. Also The Fresh Up above Las.

Favorites thus far were Uncommon Goods in SoCo, Mercury, Langford Market, and Gallery D on 2nd St.

Post-Translations, Page 1

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Lady’s Symphony in Two Cities

Book it!

Scroll book of compiled images of modern Japanese bridges from touring Tokyo Art Show, 2007 .

up Updated down

stripped away many things lately.  strangely, i found what i’ve been looking for in the last 8 years- remedial clarity in the nakedness.

tangent; what’s your ideal job?

mine is a mix of many things.  life feels like a job. unfortunately, society only takes monetary notes, though the true value between a $50 hourly rate and my creative freedom is incomparable.

believe i’ll go the less is more route.  inventive instead of instituted methods. active movements in contrast to entropic thoughts.

things that make me happy:
being a ninja
relaxing in yoga
digging in dirty basements
abandoned structures, preferably industrial
auto salvage and metal scrap yards
mig welders and chemical patinas
vintage fabrics and antique trinkets
sitting in front of a computer for less than 5 hours of work

i love polyester & so should you!

that’s right. five years from now, ya’ll know i was totally in for the polyester come-back.

way greener than cotton. those disco junkies were on to sumthin’.

 

who don’t love the men and ladies in a uniform that never wrinkles?  crazy japanese know what’s up.

re:evaluating

passions. my passion? design and materials that make my life glamorously efficient in the way that I have defined. more specific? efficient in zero-waste, a moralistic attitude describing responsibility in an existentialist way, nostalgic of our mothers, purified by higher thoughts, linked back to my daily action’s fingerprint in the whole picture.

i like old things. i love to rediscover lost old things. i inevitably want to carry back the rusty pieces of a corner to my home. there they will have use. resourcefulness, fond am i.

speed is a measure i work on. slow and steady wins the race, cause time is longer than you think. i would like to be in here for the long haul.

so, i drop the non-desire to sit in front of the computer and pick-up again my desire to roam for the discarded.

Digital Action

fo virtual? fo virtual virtual? nah, fo virtual yo! crazy how technology assists us in actions that we’re physically unable, unwilling, or unwonting to do.

here’s a little diddy that is out of sight!
The Eyewriter

Dark Harvest

I have this thing where I can see how it all connects, and through trial and error, I learn how truly the pieces align. Just finished reading, A Timeless Way of Building (thanks Carlos), and the ending struck me as the first thing I thought about in order to even read the book itself. There was no way I could insert myself into the pattern, no way could I manipulate it to achieve that life. This takes me back to an island where I learned to let it go to begin with. Oh, let go of my ego, sounds so simple, so so hard.

Diminish this thought, on to the next. Craft fairs were a good trial for summer, nice to be outside and experiment interactions with target markets. Maybe I’ll keep on with the Etsy shop thing… we’ll see. CoHo Crew has some things in the works for the future. Right now, for me, it’s back to school, forward the business , take a broader view of the future than the tunnel vision I often put on. Gotta’ put it all in to perspective now before it’s too late….