DEATH NOW Our perceptions of death have continued to shift and evolve yet still revolve around a type of instinctive fear of the end of life. Sometimes we re-direct our attention to life affirmation in order to conceal a latent anxiety regarding its cessation.  Michel Foucault has remarked how this emphasis on life—as a method [...]

DEATH AND THIS DESIGNER What does death look like? Goya’s corpse hauling itself out of the grave in Nada? Or like bloodied and gutted bodies hanging from trees like crows crowding onto a morbidly stiff and gnarled branch, pointing into the darkness in Jacques Callot’s war etchings? The proliferation of skulls, taxidermy, vintage war paraphernalia [...]

You can play this look many ways. I’ve covered quite a bit of territory on various takes on “Chinoiserie” or Chinaphilia at this point so what can be construed as an opioid aesthetic is quite an eclectic mashup. Because I personally think of the 20′s and 30′s in Shanghai as they heyday of opium madness [...]