The photographs are beautiful and inspiring.
He always sounded a little silly to me (this one obviously went through the eyes of an editor). Forget the writing, it was never the author’s strength. Or the utter simplicity of a white shirt and a navy skirt (put on a pair of pearls and you have the impeccable simplicity of Carolina Herrera). A little flower pin on the peak of a suit jacket’s lapel. It’s a woven friendship band on the ankle of a distinguished-looking man wearing a grey suit with abbreviated pants. As in a pocket square that, at closer inspection, reveals itself to be not just one square of fabric, but three layers-white and two shades of light blue-handstitched on top of the other, with three embroidered dots near the edge of a corner. People introducing themselves by way of clothing. It’s not about fashion, but self-expression. However, she has never let her physical challenges.diminish her presence." Julie has one leg slightly shorter than the other, has very slim arms and walks with a very slight limp. "She is very chic but she is far from perfect, physically at least. The girl on the cover is Julie, one of Schuman's favorite subjects.
Stanton Avery’s invention of self-adhering labels is acceptable for this show. Post-its, grocery lists, stamps, sticker books, duct tape notes, bumper stickers, warranty stickers, star stickers, red dot stickers, character stickers, stickers of your own design, stickers with your name on it, layers of decollaged stickers, stamps, decals, manufacturing labels, programming manuals, campaign stickers, stickers on your niece’s sticker book, stickers that come free with your favorite cereal or chips, stickers that indicate your clothes or shoe size, band aids, striped band aids, seals of approval, seals of validity-anything that adheres to any flat surface or anything that has evolved from R. This is an isolated event and not in any way connected to anything of that sort.) This show will hopefully bomb this white out on SEPTEMat Mo_space.(Notice that we were very careful not to be too sentimental as to coincide this with 911. However, blank stares equal an anesthetized engagement.Ĭlockwise from topmost left: Cubao Expo 017, Mariano Ching + wewilldoodle, Phone, and Theresia Irma Aryani. It is an industry, after all, or another wall to be filled in and stared at. Not because street art has become in fashion and is fully accepted with its auspicious marketing potential, (well, partly it is) but it has been its intrinsic task as an institution to tag or be tagged for the surfaces with which it chooses to please its target viewers or clientele. Gallery walls that act as transitory tabula rasas now willfully submit to this anarchic decoupage. Peeling through these layers would only reveal the lacerated skins of this dread and the incessant need to patch up this dread. Contemporary life seems stuck from this surfeit of surface treatment that walls scream dread of horror vacui, holes howl of vapid voids. Its function as a branding tool and as necessitated by free market capitalism build up to a hypertextual landscape of meaning, desires, systems and neuroses. dresser doors, locker doors, flip flops, luggage, airplane tickets, fruit crates, shiny red apples, boxes, bottles, report cards, tin cans, washing machines, license plates, ID cards,registration papers, traffic citations, postal notes, price lists, electrical posts, metal gates, guitar cases, fenders, Gibson guitars, skateboards, surfboards, school bags, notebooks, laptops – everything it seems that need to be ascertained of its identity as a product, name, ownership, authorizing agent, point of origin, ideology, allegiance, nationality, degree of importance, expediting instruction, washing instruction, use instruction, content, material, etc., etc., etc. You see these normally affixed to flat, smooth surfaces such as walls, folders, envelopes, mirrors, windshields, car bumpers,refrigerator doors. Stickers, tapes, adhesives, decals-you are holding something like it right now. A work labeled elmer-jj_lo and, right, by Yvonne Quisumbing.
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