Rachel Antonoff FW19

Selected cows+ for toile, Rachel Antonoff FW19 (aka last year’s Christmas presents for the extended family). Oil on paper, watercolor on paper, hours in Photoshop. Now available printed on actual clothing through @rachelantonoff

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Marfa Open Italia: Ferrara

Thank you Ferrara and Factory Grisù for a wonderful start to our #friarjustin project!

Last night @mayameissner and I had our first performance experience, facilitating an exchange of secrets between strangers. Our visitors wrote their secret on the back of a photograph, receiving in return the secret of a stranger to carry with them. These secrets were written in English, Italian, German, and Albanian, by children, by adults, by the elderly.

Friar Justin’s life, as it exists in the photographic keepsake evidence that we found in garbage bags, was one of generosity and spiritual comforting. By encouraging others to let go of the things that burden us in this life, and anonymously take on the secrets of others, we hope to continue the theme of that life. .
Now we're packing it all up and will be building the next instantiation in Venice this week. #marfaopen #marfaopenitalia

Marfa Open Italia: Ferrara

Performance with @mayameissner for #marfaopen #marfaopenitalia is actually tonight (May 25, 20:00-22:00). Spazio Grisù, Via Mario Poledrelli, 21, 44121 Ferrara FE, Italy.

Come give us your secrets.

I made a painting and some sketches for Rachel Antonoff that she turned into a repeat pattern and hand-stitched embroidery designs for her biological/botanical crossover Fall/Winter ‘15 line. Photos of the finished clothes are from style.com, which also features a review of the collection that says about my contributions–“the "organ garden,” a bewitching mix of vines, blooms, spleens, and hearts that was darkly lovely and notably sophisticated for Antonoff; ditto a simple shift embroidered across the chest with two flower-filled lungs.“

"Bewitching” is the best thing anyone has ever said about anything I’ve ever done.