Sin + Make It Fashion XXX series

Sin + Make It Fashion XXX is a series I created from my admiration of fashion photography and the fashion industry. My appreciation is for the creation of clothing as artform, particularly high fashion and the incredible gifts of the photographers and stylists collaborating to make the designer’s full vision come alive. As a native New Yorker, fashion has always been on my radar, the energy and mood this city gives to the industry and to its street fashion is so relevant to the art it inspires.

Utilizing fashion magazines turned into digital prints, I use painting techniques to create abstract and surreal imagery, forming my personal narrative.

My allure to high fashion, its place in history and culture and how we utilize “costumes” to express various roles, customs, loves and rituals, I believe is an incredible way to tell a story about a person, place or time. Often giving us global insights from religious backgrounds, trades and occupations, regional food and commerce & stories told to children.

I also work a bit with multiple concepts of “the gaze” inserting the circus and its many interpretations both historically and as familiar narratives and imagery. It is a subject that feels so vast and can be one of innocence, as well as XXX.

The use of thin paper, torn edges and less refined print sets the sentiment of a broadside poster and my desire to plaster the streets with art, fashion and elements of circus bringing forth ideas of difference, strength, culture, history and the necessity of the arts as a source of education and entertainment for society.