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."

Monday, January 12, 2009

Magic

happened. Yesterday was one of the most beautiful days of my life. I am in awe and gratitude.
The little sustainable fashion seed that i sowed and nurtured for years has grown and blossomed. This happened only by the help and support, the creative genius and the talents of many people. Some were old friends, some new, all were people who showed up and turned concept into form, who took my outlines and sketches, filled them out with their own brilliance and the results were much more than i had imagined...and yet i "knew" they would be.

The video shoot delay allowed for a better production as more talent and equipment were available, the script was enhanced and i have even more faith in our collective human ability to grow new paradigms before the old cancerous ones kill us all!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Video Shoot Tomorrow

Not a snowflake in sight, the dresses are pressed, accessories packed, set riff raff and equipment are ready to go. I am sitting here realizing again how amazing it is that so many people are volunteering to show up and help this video story come to life.
I haven't the words to thank them all enough for proving that the possible is everywhere...just sometimes disguised by the everyday.
L all, deborah

the trifold illustration is circa 2005 when a friend and i got together to play with paints, scissors and pretty paper bits like we did when we were kids....try it, its fun!

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Example

the following (preceding) post was an example of logic supporting the intuitive mind. That amuses me! so i do it a lot but just now realized it's meaning in context with the Einstein quote.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Monkey Kings

Have we been fooled by our logic?
It seems monkeys have culture and pass information down through generations, they farm, have hierarchical rules, have those that kill each other off more frequently than any outside force, use tools and some can communicate between species that share a location.
They appear to follow the logical thought process. (PBS/Nature: Clever Monkeys)

This is big. Once more the beauty of the intuitive, spiritual, knowing mind is brought into the fore as it appears that is really what makes us human and it's expression is art. So art is what will guide us through the paradigm change and as fashionRIP is trying to embrace as many art forms and artists as possible ....wow mom, look what i did in life today!

Thursday, January 1, 2009

4 of 7

and a new year.
with a new date to shoot the first fashionRIP video ...a total base 7 in numerology and that is nice...playful and lucky.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Bye 2008

you started out better than you ended, yet all in all there was more good than not. With a so long and a fare the well, another year closes on the timeline of the limited perspective. However it is a great reason to celebrate. The serfs had around 100 holidays but we "lost" ours in the pursuit of that dream thing, that carat in front of the nose, that grand illusion, that ........poof! pop! So make the most of what is left!

Finished fashion collage 3.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

recyCouture dress No. 2

Illustration in marker, fabric, thread and paper of Dress 2 for the Verge chapter of fashionRIP. The illustrations are for the altered book; which is an element of the installation of this first chapter.

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Happy Yule

this is a day that reflects the best of our human potential. With peace honored by seeing gently and extending love despite our myriad walls...we will strengthen that which keeps us a species worthy of its abilities. xxooxoxox

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Mixed mediums 1

a fabric and paper collage of a recyCouture suit to be shown in Verge.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

organic design

Monday, December 22, 2008

IF

time is the 4th dimension, than spirit is surely the 5th.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Synchronicity

Sweet!!!!

I'll be there. Love the quote -
"So yay, perhaps this was what the universe wants and baby i don't fight or pout I just look for the path i was overlooking and expect brilliance!"
I'll have to use it.
(from Ardis Allyn photography and video)

On Dec 21, 2008 5:01am, DEBORAH BARNES wrote:
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> Hey, there are no mistakes....just revisions, the shoot was snowed out!..............
...........................................expect brilliance!

When your own words come back to "haunt you" let it be like this!

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.