The Yeti Crab

This thing just FASCINATES me.

Looks like a puppet.

Lots of Yeti Crabs hanging out.

Pincer fractal.

The Golden Ass Crack

Aren't humans bizarre creatures? Some will scratch and claw through life trying to gain material possessions which tell others "I have arrived!". Branding is a symbol of status, of identity, of achievement. It aligns us with our "tribe", whether that is the tribe of IKEA, Toyota, or Hermes. Some brands really stick out like a sore thumb; they have had so much money pumped into them that their symbolic power has been inflated to extremes, elevated above the peasant brands. One that always springs to mind is the golden ass crack itself, the interlocking double C of CHANEL.

The 80's

I love the idea of the 80's being this raunchy, pink, bubblegum cocaine decade of excess and greed. Yuppies, palm trees and shoulder pads etc...

The cast of Dynasty (my guilty pleasure, viewed from an anthropological perspective of course).

Pink convertibles are the shit.

Drew Barrymore and Corey Feldman at the Academy Awards.

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Princess Diana and John Travolta share a dance at the White House.

COLOURCOLOURCOLOUR

A sweet bit of juiciness for the eyes.

Beetles by Christopher Marley

Globen, Stockholm, Sweden.

Verner Panton, Visiona Installation.

Miles Aldridge "Bang"

Alexander McQueen Shipwreck dress, featured in Nylon Magazine, 2003.

Jeff Koons bangle by Lisa Perry

Aqueous II The Sequel

Saint Wenceslas crown, part of the Bohemian crown jewels.

Holi Festival, India

Gemma Ward, by Nick Knight

Christina Aguilera by David Lachapelle

Human forms

Ever since humans first started representing reality, we have been manipulating human form. What is it about our psyche which causes us to morph these versions of ourselves? We have been shattered, stretched, exaggerated and squashed. Even our ideas about beauty, from ringed necks to boob jobs, are all about this manipulation of the body. I suppose by distorting aspects of ourselves, we learn to know ourselves. The absolute potential and variation in every human figure is simply astounding. 

I went to a Ron Mueck exhibition a while ago. He creates hyper real human sculptures. The only way to tell them apart from real life is their scale, as they are always larger or smaller than living humans. This creates an unsettling feeling when observing them, especially the smaller ones; I felt totally invasive when leering my face up close to them, trying to look at the detail of their pores and veins, and half expected them to snap at me and tell me to fuck away. After leaving the gallery every human I passed looked like a sculpture, and the streets turned into a sea of squishy noses and ears, a plastic fleshy mass exhibition of human form. It sure made for great people watching.

Ron Mueck

Alexander McQueen bodysuit.

Kostas Varotsas

Lolo Ferarri

Mirrorman

Antony Gormley

Lucian Freud

My Blue Period

It's funny how some people have a favourite colour. It seems a childlike way of defining oneself, like having a favourite animal or food. But if I HAD to choose, blue would be mine. I really love the sky and the sea, and one of my first words as a child was turquoise (no shit). Something about blue really just tingles the ol' rods and cones and hits my visual G-spot. Here are some blue things which really get me going.

This beautiful house was designed by Mobius Design Group.

Gucci Turquoise bag.

Gareth Pugh lapel-less blazer for men (quite tame for Pugh).

"Blow" vase series by Front Design. Created by simulating wind on a 3D computer model of a malleable vase. 

Christian Louboutin shoes.

Salvatore Ferragamo Spring 2012 Menswear (I love the whole outfit, including the future jogger dude glasses).

ANOTHER SHOE

This is an unwearable shoe I made from strips of aluminium, with a steel sole cut using a water jet cutter.

Salt and Pepper

A silly lil' pair of salt and pepper shakers I created, inspired by the most famous ears in pop culture.

Shoes!

Some shoe designs I have been working on. They are a bit ridiculous and impractical but as I have mentioned before I adore the sculptural, whimsical and poetic, so sometimes impracticality is dreamy. Primary colours and exotic prints always stimulate me.

Aztec gold.

Red and black stripes (inspired by Alexander McQueen's Fall 2009 collection).

Patterned satin.

PAG - The Lady is Dead

This is a symbolic experience for the gaze. Bodies writhe throughout, men and women, creating a sexually charged rawness. The song haunts while the older woman, with her status symbols and painted on mask, gazes at muscled men frothing all over her BMW. A young pair engage in an erotic act of pearl polishing cunnilingus. There are solid, female tennis players, lobbing a liver back and forth. Abstracted acts of sexuality and identity leave interpretation open to the viewer. The stark white background creates a lack of context, lending it surreal, almost artificial feel. Enjoy the sensations and thoughts which result! The soundtrack is "In This Shirt" by The Irresponsibles.