While Discovering the bookshop Skylight during our first morning tour in the Beverly Hills area, I found there a photography book named " EUSA ", by Naomi Harris, showing diverse pictures around the the theme of there American culture represented in Europe but also her stereotypes and how she is mixed with German culture too. I did a selection of the pictured I linked the most with, and saw a connection to my German nationality but also of me rediscovering all that America represents and the meaning and symbol of it. face to face of two cultures . The picture I chose have also a connection with my precious friendship with my mum and our bond that is rebuild by doing this travel threw California. The colors off the patriotic flag, but also the style of the clothes the girls are wearing, some of them mainly consisted out denim, make me also see I way of being part of a group. To try to belong to a culture. The pride in the patriotism is what interest me. Why are we so proud of the country we come from? From were comes the need to represent it?
The work of poly Poland makes me feel safe, makes me feel comfort and goes against of feeling afraid of hurting myself if I fall. This fear that relate so much with the work I want to produce for this project it is about facing a fear of hurting yourself facing the fear of perfection, of the perfect representation of your face and body. it is also a way to react on circumstances and atmospheres that are non-usual and that you’re not used to.
And even if the texture is more soft and irregular rather than glossy and plastic, there is this sort of transformation between both of the plastic world and the more organic world.
And it’s exactly this combination I found so charming about los Angeles it is this very plastic cinematographic answer real life people live here in contrast to the downtown area where there are homeless people but also organic sort of lifestyles more connected to nature the streets or something more rough.
The American sweet dream. Our dream. My moms and mine.
Perfection against imperfection
in this Jean Michel basquiat paintings, also part of the broad museum collection we say that day, I say a very clear texture on the canvas that reminded me a lot of the denim textures. I added this picture of " Eyes and Eggs" also for the dismorphia in the face of the human represented, If I can still call it a human. The proportion of the eyes are exaggerated, showing only two white eyeballs, the nose is covered by a big brush splash and the mouth is barely to see. I research in work I want to produce a destruction of my usual drawing skills and to try to break the perfection in the line I always try to draw. I have a vision of myself that I what to change. I am very free when it comes to drawing the body and permit myself to draw in all shapes possible and forget the law of its composition. But when it comes to the face, and mostly of my face, I stick to the proportions and try to do it the best and most realisctic way possible.
this work of Charles Gaines entitled "Palm trees and others", was exposed in the Hauser & Wirth gallery in L.A when I was there with my mom. It inspired me try work with th denim in a more deconstructive way. and rebuilding it, as a puzzle. the palm trees being a strong symbol for Los Angeles are here covered by their deconstructed and pixelized silhouette. the end of the palm structure will continue inspire me for maybe the hairstyle I would like to use for my final outcome look.
Rei Kawakubo, Comme des Garcons’s AW17 show
ayoi Kusama
Pink Boat
1992
Stuffed sewn fabric, boat, pair-oar
The work of poly Poland makes me feel safe, makes me feel comfort and goes against of feeling afraid of hurting myself if I fall. This fear that relate so much with the work I want to produce for this project it is about facing a fear of hurting yourself facing the fear of perfection, of the perfect representation of your face and body. it is also a way to react on circumstances and atmospheres that are non-usual and that you’re not used to.
And even if the texture is more soft and fluffy rather than glossy and plastic, there is this sort of transformation between both of the plastic world and the more organic world.
And it’s exactly this combination I found so charming about los Angeles it is this very plastic cinematographic answer real life people live here in contrast to the downtown area where there are homeless people but also organic sort of lifestyles more connected to nature the streets or something more rough.
The American sweet dream. Our dream. My moms and mine.
The series of Erwin wurm's Fat cars sculptures, 2001-2005, are about distorting, inflating and bending structures of perfect cars. It is also about Increasing, remodelling or removing volume. By taking the question of obesity, Wurm probes the link between power, wealth and body weight. He also wants to offer a sharp criticism of our current value system, as the advertising world demands us to stay thin but to consume more and more.
Jeff Koons’ reproduction balloon animals are amongst some of his most recognisable pieces. Usually rendered in a mirror-finished stainless steel in a variety of colours, the works reflect an element of childhood play and disposable culture but in a definitive, substantial form.
It reminds of the certain lost of my childhood by coming to the U.K and by finding it again during this trip with my mother. The capture of the reflection in the art piece of us is moment of happiness. even if we see are self's disformed in it, we don't care about the appearance in this fraction of time.
Locals only, California skate boarding 1975-1978, PHOTOgraphs by Hugh Holland
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (2012)
the Zabriskie point of Antonioni is a materpiece I discovered this holidays while watching the tv with my mom. This movies touched me deeply after I saw the final scene, before the explosion of the house and the last ten minutes I was quiet bored. I still wonder how it possible that for my body too react in the that it doesn't feel any emotions for lets say 90 min but that the last ten minute It breaks in tears. The music combined with it is a Pink Floyd song called Come in 51, that I listened to the next two weeks continuously. I started imagining bubble gum exploding, creating massive pink clouds.