Mindless Consumption : Asian Culture as Fashion Trend

Qipao dresses, kimono styles, knot fastenings and brocade fabric are saturating my news feeds. From friends instagrams, to boohoo campaigns, magazines, and depop sellers, Asian affiliated clothing is a huge trend and clearly a profitable one at that. Why? And perhaps more importantly, why not?  These styles find their origins in Chinese wedding garb, and …

Giovanni Vetere’s is changing the way Man connects with water

Jacques Yves Cousteau’s 1964 Homo Aquaticus theory described the future of the evolution of the human species as being capable of living under water. Previously a photography student, Giovanni Vetere visualised Cousteau’s hypothesis in the form of mind-bending performance art.  Giovanni Vetere is an Italian performance artist, currently completing his final year at Camberwell College …

Caution and BlacKkKlansman

In one of the final scenes of Spike Lee’s new release BlacKkKlansman, when the major mission has been resolved, the protagonist couple receive a knock at the door and move slowly towards the window, guns drawn, and we see a burning cross in the distance. It’s a prolonged and sinister moment, nodding to true 1970s …

My problem with grapefruit.

  My relationship with grapefruit is one I keep to myself. I let people know, if they ask, that I do eat it from time to time, but I never shed light on how, how often, when, why. I'm not ashamed of eating grapefruit. I understand that it can now be a political act, its …

What’s left : travel, being alone, and mental health.

In June I spent 3 weeks in Mageli Gard, an organic farm in Tretten Norway. When I asked if a woman from Oslo if she knew Tretten, she thought I had made it up. I went alone, but met a few people there also doing the same organisation as me (WWOOFING). I couldn't really tell …

Reflection

I'm depending. In stillness suspending On a thin sheet of cool. Reflective- I can see her. She rests her feet on mine- Rooted. Divided by an impermeable nothing, That holds our ankles together in chains. My eyes force my gaze to her, and hers to me. Co-existing; each other’s life line. But each day weakens …

Isolation & Infinity

An anthology of photographs, diary entries, and illustrations from my time spent in Mageli Gard, an organic farm in rural Norway. 

A poem about silence

Narcissus

  Self awareness is so self evident. You stare around but really you are staring at yourself In the eyes of those who stare at you. I myself do stare back too.   Half moon almond eyes you have Warm and light like adffogato. I want to drink them and spoon them into my lips …

This was America, This is America / Kienholz and Childish Gambino

“If six to one is unfair odds in my tableau, then 170 million to 20 million is sure as hell unfair odds in my country.”-  Edward Kienholz  Childish Gambino’s This is America video is full of references to African American injustice in the US, from the nod to the 2015 massacre at Emanuel African Methodist …