Greetings... it is 11 am on this beautiful, windy Thursday! I'm looking at my phone case right now and it definitely needs more phone charms. I would like this thing to be a flail, something I can flay my enemies with if I swing my phone hard enough. BUT in true recession fashion, I have no money to buy more phone charms so I WILL be making mine! Speaking of which, seems like a good idea if I want to make some and sell them. I really would like a job, everyone is hiring but also not accepting at the same time so I don't know what that's about. Either that or I'm just super unemployable, which could be true. I worked at a warehouse for a summer doing inventory work and I'm somewhat self-employed with my art commissions (that I should work on). Oh well. It will find me I suppose.
I've been listening to a lot of Kilo Kish lately! She's got such cool music, and she has a collaborative show about diaspora and home, displacement and land at the moca! The themes of her work are more important now than ever, especially with topics today regarding land back for the indigenous people, Palestine, and in general immigration. Haha, suddenly I feel like I'm writing for a discussion board for school, but seriously, these are very significant events happening in our lifetime that shouldn't be glossed over. It is a privilege that I can sit here and write about it, comfortable in my bed when others are facing death and uncertainty. I saw a post about cancer research at Harvard being halted because their scientist that was conducting the research was being held at a detention center in El Salvador. All I can say is that I hope humanity and goodness prevail in the end, to keep boycotting for Palestine, check in on the news when you can, stay informed and keep protesting.
Back to the topic of Kilo Kish, some songs that I really enjoy are Julienne and Leaving off of her remastered EP homeschool. ATTENTION POLITICIAN, negotiate, and reprogram are some of her more popular songs, and they're absolutely in my playlist. I think she's not afraid to get experimental in her music, and her lyrics are so thoughtful and well written. There's a sense of familiarity in the playfulness that comes from her music that I resonate with in my own work. I really loved my sculpture professor, she was super awesome and I always loved hearing what she had to say about my work. She talked about the sense of play in my work that a lot of artists lose as they grow up; play that is similar to a childlike whimsy and sensibilities. She's also described my work as perverted too, which I think is the highest compliment. I had a sculpture involving a wooden box that me and the woodshop keeper built together (thank you Kevin), which was a room that these two animal lovers shared. It was full of little furniture, and a mini dildo (it was like 2 inches). I've then since applied this weird raunchy-ness to my drawings, and even my painting final. Super fun stuff!
For fashion today, I took a little deep dive into mori gyaru. And I read up on some mori kei basics for 2025 by forestsandtea . It's a very good place to start if you're looking to get into mori kei! I love forestsandtea's blog so much, it helped me on my j fashion journey, plus she inspires me to create more mori kei content! I want to film a mori kei wardrobe video when I get home from my studio class today :) So watch out for that soon! I gotta clear up my youtube too, there's some stuff that I don't particularly like and need to private HAHA. My recent mori coord blew up on tiktok too! it's got 11k views and everyone has been super nice to me, which I'm really happy about! Wow, life of an influencer, right? I'm going to get ready to paint a mural now, so I'll talk to you later! Toodles >:)