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."

Friday, February 14, 2014

Valentine Delivered

Early morning thought:

When Love crashes into Fear and Love embraces Fear and murmurs "everything is ok, we can meet this together head on all snarls and hugs, all "want yous and run aways" does this open the door to home, is this what it takes to fill the hole in many a soul? I am not sure, but i think the answer is Yes.

This is what i have found -after 2 marriages and many semi intimate relationships later. There is no safety chain in love, for that comfort edge is a construct of control. It feels safe, but it’s a stall.

When fear equals the love in a sexual relationship, then perhaps that is the meeting of star to star, starmates are not soulmates, they are more.

When the energy with eros is confusing, complex, driven and fear ridden, is this the emotion of the mystery we are daring now to face? Is this the new face of love, equal archetype powered, always shifting, open and curious, always ready to cover each other’s back and to call each other out. When we are trapped, stuck or mystified are we ready to show that vulnerable being to another so that we all heal together? Are we ready?

This emotional crash isn't easy, is not that comfortable, "safe" haven we think we want. This feeling goes past the cozy, reflective self, the list partner, this forces a dive into the abyss of change and transformation, because it is that scary. Old instincts say, "turn and run like "hell" and risk says. "reach out and embrace that person, they are the fear/love collision that will smack you into unity, they will crack you open, enable your soar.

This emotion pushes your soft spots and jabs your buttons. This is the best way i can describe the amazing journey i have been experiencing. Being cracked open forced me to go into the center of being- and gave the Isa journey story a title

If that isn't a gift of love ...what is?

Pleasing the other, playing the roles, reading the advice from the divide, aka how to catch a man/woman, how to get the attention, the "love" sought from the "other," all of this is old paradigm and will continue an old story. Though the adaptions are myriad and called progressive, evolutionary leaps are more strenuous and easy at once!

Until the "other" is intrinsically the you, until you see the sides and respond to the whole of another's being, the tawdry, the what the fucks, the sweet, the dumb, the endearing, the weak chin, the tummy, the eyes that transport, the heart beating and running away, the final heart beat, the beauty of "endings," until this makes sense; i suspect we are just toying with life and love and not accepting the full responsibility.

The old patterns are resulting in such devastation; to planet, health, relationships, sanity, there is no way i am buying that sell.The new story evolves after the ashes fall from the sky and the horizon clears. You see and feel the breath of the answer and you know your heart understood all along.

So the old think stinks, and the new ones are most def="scary" and so far "unproven" in the old format, however under quantum physics all that changed about a century ago!

The Trailblazers always risk the most- God love 'em, Gaid nurture them, we are going to get past this bump. God embraces Gaia and life inherited consciousness and the energy to be in the experience of the consciousness. How cool is that?

So co- creative love is a next response concept. I believe it will push us away from fake security and rock us, hurt us and catapult us into potential. It is what i am finding to be true. The experiment continues.

Saturday, February 8, 2014

FYI on DIY

Beautiful Soul from pages of ReMake It book

ReFashion and Sustainability -partners in fashion futures

& so not the dirty , sweatshop "progress" of the old world

University of Washington Bookstore has great taste and terrific employees.

Support local and we all rise together.

These new books at UW Bookstore prompted me to start pulling at the threads i will need to weave an opening design on something that now appears so obvious that i cannot imagine how i didn't like bump into it months, years ago!! This is the way the "reality" of what is possible shifts when you choose to see another, better "reality." The suddenness can take a long while and that is perplexing yet is where the faith kicks in, so makes another kind of sense.

Earlier that day, I had a great conversation on some of the Bible issues that have bothered me -what with the myth deconstructing and all- this stuff jumps up and bites.

The greatest thing emerged and i was validated by a "man of the cloth," this was so validating. So wow, someone gets me and that some one wants to continue the conversation. Date and time have been put on calendar.

Then i went to browse the books and saw titles that revived my sparks for reFashion. The fire had been doused with the closing of the Kerf Gallery and was further damped after the Seattle Community College Continuing Education Course manager told me "no one was interested" in these kind of classes.

The school is pushing big business plug ins, as in deeper tunneling into the current mainstream vision -so leaping is probably not on their radar.

But these books, full of people and design companies i met during my trips to London, made me happy! Here is further proof of common goals and supportive community working to manifest a new way of thinking! tThere it is , right there...and it hit me.

Project Talent Hub has been reignited. The Serendipity Trail is now unfolding (unfurling as i wrote to a key person minutes ago today)

I think i hear the uni-verse hum. More will follow, as the lyrics emerge.

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.