2.

this one-piece dress includes three different patterns along with a neutral black back. it closes with three uranium glass buttons, has a collar created by a thin horse hair braid and a belted waist.

if you like what you see, there's a bit more over at my website!

3.

this silk dress is printed with falling dead horses and has blue LED lights along the shoulders which can be turned on by squeezing a button inside of the pocket. it is meant to literally 'give power' to the wearer. the belt is made of the same print as the leggings and features a bronze buckle with a small fire opal in the center.

4.

the tank top image is based off of this which was a reference for a never-completed tapestry weaving. the back hangs extra long and is made of a poly-silk mesh. the leggings are a silk-lycra blend done in this print and feel amazing. everything was sewn with glow-in-the-dark thread.

1.

this is a two piece, top and skirt. the black part of the top is made of a poly-silk mesh see-thru stripe fabric and the sleeves and cape-back are of my own printed design. around the collar is a thick horse hair braid which has a nice heaviness on the shoulders. the skirt has pockets {essential} and is made of alternating panels of lighter/darker versions of the same print.

master of textiles!

for my recently completed masters thesis i explored the transformative nature of clothing and its conceivable use as a modern day fetish object. in order to do so i considered the philosophy of friedrich nietzsche's amor fati, the historical use of magic as a cure for the anxiety of life, and the semiotics of fashion, to examine how garments can act as a catalyst in altering the individual’s relationship to and view of the world. in particular i focused on the integration of opposites; beauty and tragedy, and the psychological power of materials and symbols, to understand the part that magical thinking plays in our lives. the main result of this research was the creation of a series of garments that are inherently magical and allow the wearer to simultaneously accept and repel life's tragedies.

ANYWAY, i'm so excited to finally share them with everyone! it was a lot of work, but i'm really happy about what i produced. i designed the prints {which are based off of space and cave imagery and include ghost-y horses}, and then digitally printed the silk fabric, and designed the patterns, and braided the horse hair {around the collars} and then sewed everything {a lot by hand} and then took the pictures {via self-timer} and even 'modeled' {with head removed due to lack of smizing}. WHEW. i'm going to be posting the garments throughout the morning, so stay tuned! xoxo!

parable.

"those thinkers in whom all stars move in cyclic orbits are not the most profound: whoever looks into himself as into vast space and carries galaxies in himself also knows how irregular all galaxies are; they lead into the chaos and labyrinth of existence." - nietzsche, the gay science

{image via apod}

shopping list.

6 yards of paper-backed silk, 2 yards of nebula printed canvas, a 1/4 pound of natural white horse hair, 15 feet of glow in the dark rope, and 12 uranium glass buttons.

earth girls are easy.

Space Valentine's Day (commonly shortened to Valentine's Day) is an annual space holiday held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate space companions. The holiday is named after one or more early Intergalactic martyrs named "Space Valentine" and was established by Lord Pope Gelasius I in 496,000 QZ. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting space flowers, offering space confectionery, and sending space greeting cards.

{space valentine
via olivetti studio}

shapes of space.

major inspiration from setareh mohtarez.

{via luxirare}

this is cassini's division.

i entered this design into spoonflower's fabric of the week contest! the theme was celestial and the artwork had to be created by hand, so i made these little watercolor meteorites flying through the rings of saturn, scanned them in and then played with the color in photoshop. i'm pretty happy with the results! if you want to vote for me {please!} click here and scroll down to find my design. if i win i get a free yard of fabric and i'll show you guys what amazing thing i make with it. vote!

diversity of life and culture.

"this is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. we are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours." - jimmy carter

the voyager golden record is so beautiful. if i was an e.t. i would think that earth was pretty great.

saut dans le vide.

yves klein used this photograph as evidence of his ability to undertake unaided lunar travel.

it was published as part of a broadside denouncing NASA's own lunar expeditions as hubris and folly. the final image is a photomontage in which the large tarpaulin klein leaped onto was removed. now that sounds like hubris and folly. whatever, he's still the creator of my favorite color ever.

infinite karma.

here's the other dress. it's also silk charmeuse that i digitally printed. one design is the horsehead nebula repeated in various scales and the other is of two lists. one is of all of the bad things that have happened to me in the past 4 months and the second is of all of the good things that are going to happen to me in order to balance those things out. magical thinking! the front has two wonderfully deep pockets and the back has an open keyhole. it was really fun and very challenging to make dresses, but i'm going to keep up with it.

with your dress of comets.

'perhaps everything would have been different
if you had stayed at the table or asked me
to go out with you to look at the moon...'

{tracciamenti via but does it float}

cosmic sisters.

image from a performance involving garments i made {and 30 balloons.}

a man on the moon.

last night i went over to whitney's house to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission. we watched the moon landing on tv and it was really exciting. i clapped.

{hasselblad photographs via nyt}

look to the skies.

paintings by esther pearl watson and sarah mceneaney, respectively. i want, nay, yearn for these two paintings.

{via string}

infinity.

nyc family portrait of me, steven and sarah in yayoi kusama's infinity room. i could have stayed in there forever.

space modern.

not only is this beauty created with the largest single piece of bentwood used to make a chair, it is also made with open cell visco elastic memory foam, used on NASA's spacecrafts, and is certified by the Space Foundation!

{via gizmodo}

MOON.

i am so excited to see this!!! it's not really the kind of movie i'd normally want to go see {sci-fi thriller?}, but the poster is beautiful, the trailer is done really well, sam rockwell is awesome and it was directed by duncan jones aka zowie bowie!