INTERVIEW
Conducted by A.B. Jackson
What is the statement that you are trying to make with your work? How would you describe it?
Not sure that I am trying to make any sort of obvious statement, I like to push limits, and create things that vibrate with boldness and sexuality. I would hope for my work to inspire people to feel even if only for a split second that anything is possible. One's work should tell stories, the ones that end and begin anywhere you like.
Your work seems to be very spiritual. How has your own spirituality affected your creative process?
I am not such a spiritual person, I am still traveling the roads of life and discovering spirit as I move threw its lessons. Having faith in ones self can sometimes be the best sort of spirituality.
Your garments seem to tell a story of sorts, with a very strong Eastern influence. Who would you say your primary influences are artistically?
My influences come mostly from my dreams, fantasies and desires to explore and mesh the past with the future and me being here creating in the now, gives it an interesting twist. I am persuaded by music and directed heavily by emotion. Music creates an open channel allowing anything to take place.
How did you begin your collaboration with Ernte Fashion? What about this project is a new experience?
My collaboration with ERNTE started as a love affair and has grown into a union between two powerful minds. Everything about this project is new, collaboration can be an interesting challenge. We are located in Bali, so the most obvious challenges are location, although location does provide opportunities in spite of certain limitations.
What is your favorite time period in fashion and why?
Favorite time period? Not as informed as I would like to be, but I love the 18th century, amazing ball-gowns, corsets, fantastical silks and lace and hand brewed dyes from exotic places on the planet, there was at one time an art to dressing. I am obsessed with craftsmanship, details dripping upon details.
What is it that you see yourself doing in five years?
5 years from know I see myself obsessively pacing through my studio trying to get that one thing exactly how it needs to be.
