fashionRIP

fashionRIP is a multidiscipline, transmedia installation of chapters, an exploration of perceptions and beliefs. It’s a platform that explores ecosystems health, generative economics, social justice, cultural and creative diversity. Starting with recycouture garments, the story became the Project. It is now an evolving experiment, designed to explore meaningful relationship based constructs that put human potential and whole systems health over the abstract ideas of faux "the real world."

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The Pulse

Seattle streets are full of art for all and lately a lot of pieces seem to be calling for a compassionate wake up. Is the theme in the streets or is the theme 'in me?'...Is it awareness that opens us to life, or is life showing up to make us aware? The law of attraction perhaps? I know not, but i do know we shouldn't let it/us/them/self down. We should say yes to love and choose the path of the true heart. Why is it so difficult?

Sunday, March 18, 2012

WaterRip Installation

Dress from thrift store, yard sale fabric, with trimming bits from Zootsuit days and brown braid from Sew Up Seattle.This time i used a pattern -McCalls- with changes...always seem to go there.

I graduated (YAY! BA in Interdisciplinary Studies, focus on environmental science and communications) and am now into setting up workshops at the Kerf (sewing, multi media, have an idea, talk to us!) and developing the Water Spirit dresses.

The WaterRIP installation will go up in the Fall, ready for the October Wallingford Art Walk. Ann Teplick writer, teacher and local treasure, is curating a literary scene that will present sometime(s) during the shows run. This is exciting, as i so look forward to hearing and seeing how our works combine; the magick's in the sum of parts!

This time the story (WaterRIP) connects the human species and water, not just in a physical resource management way (Huge and Important by itself!), but in a complex atomic reality that smudges the borders between us.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Born of Stars

We are one. Born of stars we are connected to the whole of the universe. Super novas are the extraordinary, the ones who choose to go beyond normal. According to recent Wayne Dwyer PBS broadcast, "Wishes Fulfilled" our imaginations will lead us if we follow them. Yes!!

Mr Dwyer then proceeded to contradict himself. In the Wishes Fulfilled lecture show he preaches that "everything is possible." However when pushing for PBS "ratings and cash vote fundraise spot" he says that "if it isn't possible to go to Assissi , Lourdes..then watch my dvd ...like you are there" ..

So what part of not possible works with all is possible?

Monday, March 5, 2012

I am offended

This ad was posted to fashionRIP and is a construct of the false beliefs that influence rational, emotional and spiritual mind fields.

Overturn Roe vs Wade? Like what dinosaur is behind this despicable violation of women's rights over their own bodies?

We are not here to procreate like rabbits! We are here for more purposeful attention to our genius and to the genius in others.We are here to give love, to understand light and to align with LIFE. Real pro life is about respecting the breath in all of us, to value the full lifecycle as it relates to the whole of a vast living universe.

The right to bear or not bear children is best left to the individuals who elect to cherish, love, nurture, respect and guide them. This ad is not about that, this ad is about control, control for a world vision that is not just antiquated but is logically absurd.

We need to focus on the true potential of the children already here. We must care now for the living if we are to ever fully comprehend who we truly are.

Our species rising population is breaking down natural cycles at an accelerated,obscene rate. This is insane as we are more dependent upon the natural cycles than the stuff of corporations. The stuff that is causing the problem is for the most part unnecessary and will be obsolete at the blink of an eye. How does this make sense?

We need to act in wisdom, now. We have no more time for creepy games in abstracted reality..

So R vsW campaigners- practice with the living now, create safe havens, an education system run by teachers that get it, more creative diversity, more meaningful, relevant options for work etc. Take those marketing funds and build a future full of possibilities for the poster baby, that would be beautiful.

You see without a coherent lifecycle understanding, i must suspect this ad is about raising human crops to insure a good supply of younguns to march into battle.

As resources dwindle, wars will continue, worsen. I understand your business model. However, i have spent years researching, following paths and stories and we humans have far better, do-able, healthier options.

Please stop this game and go into you, find you and i believe you will redirect. Choose light!

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Law of Attraction

Adrianna just happened to wear the colors of Colin Days paintings. It is a magickal Life . I am constantly being reminded to stay awake to the dance of the Universe!

Why it Matters

What's the matter with more and more fashion choices?

It sounds good; we love to be able to pick the perfect outfit. You wear it once or twice and then ....what was the real cost here?

Your time to shop and the money spent, not so much ....go a little deeper and consider the fiber source, the dyes and chemicals used, the health toll on the workers, the energy to run the machines, the transporting carbons...and now it just takes up closet space. But so what? It's been going on for-almost-ever and you didn't make the rules.

In fact we are told this is what a "healthy" economy looks like.

You will recycle it after all, give it to charity or your sister. This is more transportation and more release of those greenhouse gases. We are using a lot of our personal energy and the resources of this planet to make, use and dump "trash" Some rags, remnants and tawdry bits will molder for eons in landfills, as nature's microbial actions are hampered by our normalized, everyday toxic lifestyles.

This goes beyond dumps as the breakdown cycle that nourishes the life of this planet has been sorely challenged by GMO crops, fertilizers, pesticides, antimicrobials..RIGHT!!. All the "living better through chemistry" propaganda after WWI and II- AKA how to sell your "garbage," is our legacy. Well no more, not on my (our) watch, we are seeing things quite differently.

As we now carry 298 toxins in our bods that weren't there in the 1930s the toxic residues of normal are haunting us more and more. Ironic, no? Advanced is merely a word.

Go to the So Whats the Point blog in February for the numbers.

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Extinctions ...So What?

Life evolves, some species survive some don't. We like to allude to Darwin's "natural selection" or Herbert Spencer's "survival of the fittest" because we are so good at reproducing and taking over this planet and justifying that side of our natures. The fact that we are wiping out the food chain by destroying habitat, fouling air and water and generally behaving like arrogant, tinkering idiots, is called business as usual. .....Well I and others are no longer buying that "sell."

We are wising up to the idea that we too, are dependent on these resources. We too, are physically an organic species and we really don't know what little extinction will be the start of the chain reaction that collapses the structure that we too, are dependent on.

Is this the price we are willing to pay for a pair of plastic shoes?

I say no, that despite the focus on the physical, we are more. We are heart and soul, mind, body, spirit. We are born of stars and we can and will leap over this world view based in old, untrue beliefs led by a science of isolation and religions of patriarchal, hierarchical constructs (your basic dominating Dad- with self reflective rights to rule). It is time to come together and heal. To transition into our fuller expectations and open the new possibilities. We are born with genius...let us help each other get to where we all can shine.