the PANT, the process.

Originally idealized as being a men's fitted trouser with bias strips in contrasting color on each leg, with a bias fly front and organza tufts emerging from the waist that would be pulled through slits in the accompanying jacket, I drastically simplified the design for my integrated studio class. Below is the finished drape, the finished product in all of its photoshooted glory is still to come...

❍❍❍moonchild❍❍❍

I have recently become obsessed with occultist, actress, O.T.O member, and O.G. California scarlet woman Marjorie Cameron, famous for her principal role as Babalon in the Babalon Working ritual which she played in 1946 with husband Jack Parsons(who would later die in a mysterious mercury disaster) and L. Ron Hubbard(who would later become the founder of Scientology.)
In the Babalon Working ritual, she would play her  role in a series of sex magick rituals in order to bring forth the Æon of Horus through the conception of a moonchild, a ritual developed by Kenneth Grant and Aleister Crowley.
Cameron also played the scarlet woman in Kenneth Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and Curtis Harrington's The Wormwood Star and Night Tide.
After her husband's death she went on to raise her daughter and spent a great deal of time with my surrealist sisters Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington, who I think are very much reflected in her illustration style.


"she met Parsons after he performed the Babalon Working, an occult rite to manifest the Goddess potential in society and throughout the human race."


 
Collaged images above done by myself for my digital class featuring the artwork of Marjorie Cameron with photographs and pants I am modeling by Aly Roberts.

สีน้ำเงิน หนังนิ่ม รองเท้า

 
It's kind of insane how perfectly the figure above(who may be a young Grace Coddinton?) resembles Emmanuelle, I mean, the print on her dress and kimono in the shots below are almost identical to the print above.














Since I can't imagine at what point I will make it out the trashconcretechainlinkfilth of brooklyn it seems all I can do is just that, imagine that the gigantic weeds that have grown in the empty lots on my block from the constant humid rain of the summer are actually a vast forest in Thailand and the rains are monsoons and that I am living in a Thai palace like the one in Emmanuelle and I go on adventures with ghosts in the night getting lost in caves and making love to catfish-princes and getting a bite to eat at a disco-glowing hole in the wall at dawn like in Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.



pear n polka dot top my me, green snakeskin belt that was my mother's originally from Tiny's Western Shop in Austin, Texas, turquoise necklace gift from mom, pencil skirt and sox American Apparel, vintage Andrew Geller blue suede shooz, gift from my aunt sooz!!











 

Isn't this poster to die for? I wanted to buy it when I went to see the movie at Film Forum over the summer but didn't and then regretted it later once it was too late, and it haunted me so I just printed a huge version of it recently for my bedroom.

Cosmo Conception

“Naked woman, covered with stars + arching on all fours over Geb. She represents the All, the infinite.”
-The Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley

❃❃❃❃Marilyn's Chakras❃❃❃❃

Marilyn Monroe in Niagara

Although the fuzzy, warped, technicolor blips in these screenshots from Niagara are a complete accident in accordance with the poor quality of the copy I have of this film, I don't think I would have enjoyed this film nearly as much without them. I've been toying around in my head with the idea of a video-fashion portfolio once I have enough pieces together to do it I really want to make something that isn't quite a campaign/show/collection/ or major work but more of a sporadic accumulation of film work that showcases exactly where my work comes from and stands at the point that the film work is created.

MOOD: The Secret Society

In process of new research for my integrated methods//concepts class. After mind-mapping my ideas have kind of scattered. My starting point was with the architectural/decor/regalia/iconographic aspects of the masonic temple, see LIL TREK
From there, I looked into the Rosicrucian roots of Freemasonry which are even richer in cryptograms and symbology. Rosicrucianism, being an older esoteric society has strong ties with the church as well as paganism and has influenced the development of many occult societies and erotic mysticism alongside Freemasonry. Given that Aleister Crowley and Kenneth Grant, along with 7 other notable occultists and Oscar Wilde(who has no ties to the occult that I know of), were all at one point freemasons, I felt a strong tie between my research on the masons and the work of Kenneth Anger especially in Lucifer Rising being that the connections between ancient Egyptian religion are so strong between the film, Thelema, Freemasonry, and Rosicrucianism. Anger, who was heavily influenced by Crowley, the occult--especially Thelema and the Typhonian Order, while being a strong figure in the Los Angeles Ordo Templi Orientis lodge was crucial in the development of homoerotic, surreal, underground films. In the digitally collaged mood boards below I have also incorporated stills from Bunuel's surrealist film, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.

⠉⠎ ⠐⠒⠉⠏⠖IN PRINT⠉⠎ ⠐⠒⠉⠏⠖

Below are a few finds from the flea and the paperback section at Strand. Unfortunately, I have terrible luck at finding anything good in the paperbacks at Strand even though I have the eyes of a hawk especially when it comes to thriftin and diggin for a bargain. And yet I still go every Tuesday with my girl Annie and she ALWAYS finds three, three!! spectacularly crazy, vintage, cult-ey, or otherwise inspiring material for a steal. I did manage to find a good book of prints of Gauguin paintings that was falling apart and thus cheap which I promptly went home and framed, so now I have my own little wall of Gauguin, which I LOVE.
At ant rate, in the midst of frustratedly digging, I started to realize that I spend most of my time getting teased by intriguing fonts and color schemes on book covers that are filled with dull reading//visual material. SO I am now making it my mission to photograph these covers, the first is below.



Below is actually a pretty good lil drama by Paul Zindel, but I didn't know that when I bought it. The cover is by far my favorite out of the 3.


I actually found the one below on the street... which makes sense after reading it.


Note the strategically framed nip in the Y in 'your.' Great typeface, and the authors interpretations of dream motifs are great.

A few examples:
ANIMALS***"instinctual sexual cravings"
BULL***"sexual passion"
BEHEADING***"fear of impotence"
BAG***"a woman, the old bag"
BALL***"playing with the testicals"
BICYCLING***"puberty, handlebars (+ holding), therefore masturbation, riding.
CAR**sexual "drives"
DEVIL***"the sexual drives"
I kid you not, these are direct quotes.