DRAWLING

Haunted Prints

I believe that places are haunted, people. I am haunted. The ghost of my past is ever- present. It seeps out of my body into my clothing, cursed with memory, we wear our lives on our sleeve. I want to make prints that evoke this same haunting quality.

Stripe-Like

Here is some of the preliminary stripe development I'm doing in Visual Communications, still concentration on Rosicrucian, Freemason, Occult themes.

GLITCH'D OUT

I've recently been really inspired by the pixelated imagery that occasionally happens when I'm watching television on my computer. I've neurotically taken screenshots every time it happens and have them accumulated all over my desktop, these are a few gems...

MÖBIUS

For the current GAP/Banana Republic integrated competition in my integrated design class, I am focusing on the French comic illustrator Jean Giraud, or Moebius, who was at his most prolific point in the late, 70s and early 80s, featured in Heavy Metal magazine. I recently read his collaborative graphic novel with Alejandro Jodorowsky(of Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre, and El Topo), entitled L'Incal, or The Incal. Since reading it I have been beyond inspired to create a collection and am currently in the process of watering down some of the designs below for a more mainstream collection.

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.