Kigo bradley ward
Kigo (ĺŁčŞž "season word"?) (plural kigo) is a word or phrase associated with a particular season, used in traditional forms of Japanese poetry. Kigo are used in the collaborative linked-verse forms renga and renku, as well as in haiku, to indicate the season referred to in the stanza. They are valuable in providing economy of expression.
Kigo a subdivsion of Fleurtograph magazine
Such a word or phrase does not only refer to a phenomenon in nature (the bees and the butterflies, the weather report), but it shows us how things change within each season. Furthermore, “Kigo” is the perfect vernacular plucked to encapsulate the vast majority of 2016’s first quarter. These moments felt bigger than just a fashion show or just an album listening party. I’ve witnessed perfect collaborations of sight and sound. It has been spiritual and emotional. But above all else life has been tangibly ephemeral. Something better digested in its passing, just as the seasons themselves.
Truly engaging with people objectively is like participating in an eclipse. Possibly a solstice, nevertheless the result is ultimately the same. A shining moment in which its rarity you were invited to take part in. Just as flammable and inflammable mean the same thing. Let your ideas combust, breathe reality into the air. This trip has taught me collaboration is a gift and a language that everyone has the capacity to understand. Some speak through patience, some through logorrhea. Some speak it at 3 am, some never turn it off to begin with. Traditional Japanese haiku are about the changes of the season and the season words help to express this f e e l i n g o f c h a n g e . And each moment accompanied is a noun, adjective, preposition, the subject and the predicate. Each day is a new stanza. Never let f e a r q u e l l y o u r p e n .
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ズン eng: season
Art, much like philosophies of humanity, challenge the facticity of the preordained rooted within that. Channeled most prevalently through the uncategorized, fashion is no different.
Often tackling the grey, whether acute or obtuse. The fascination with abstraction more often than not is mistaken for an explorative or flirtatious dystopian pair of rose colored glasses. When in fact its most closely correlated to going live on periscope trying speed dating Dali, Fr a n c is Ba c o n a n d Ma r c Ro t h k o . You h ave to be brave. You have to be vulnerable and comfortable with failure. You have to learn how to fail better. It takes the meshing of an idea that’s not quite a solid but not quite a liquid. It takes confidence and trust to stand up for what you believe in, which should be y o u r s e l f . I am lucky enough to witness that in my friends as they invite me to play a part in fulfilling their dreams.
As the tightness of ideology unravels, you have the human mind harnessing its most dangerous form. Oozing, full of life, a problem not to be solved or even to be heard. Fore a jungle drum’s warning is not the vibrance but its s i l e n c e .
“When you live in a really small town and you’re artistic, you get made fun of. You’re the nerd. So I never really pursued it. But now that I’m around more and more creative people I feel motivated. I want to have a hand in everything. Creating, editing, influencing.
Modeling is my main creative outlet because I think I become someone else. When I view myself, I think that I’m cute and funny or quirky but when I model I transform. I seem more mysterious or sexy but I don’t ever see myself like that in real life.”
you know exactly how it f e l t the very first m o r n i n g Pluto realized it could no longer be reached by the sun.
FIELD NOTES Nothing you really need/Made in the U.S.A.
“I’ve heard all my life ‘the Bronx is so dirty’ and stupid shit you know. I just wanted to show a different side of it. People just assume that it’s dangerous or not as developed but there’s beauty everywhere here. Places aside from Yankee Stadium and Orchard Beach. That shouldn’t only represent the Bronx. And I’ve gotten a lot of feedback and people saying ‘Oh you’re from the Bronx? Me too, I’m so glad somebody did this.’ It makes me feel great. Because I was blinded and this was something I needed to experience for myself.”
Kasey-Lynn Kasey-Lynn Rodriguez Rodriguez Rodriguez
last night my eyes were flirting with the advert-isement of your Nefertiti vertebrae and I felt a sudden rush of malnourishment. the ambient glare catching your neckline can only be described as what was promised to the Israelites.
I’m fortunate you believe in a dream
Thank you Adrienne Black, Joey Keller, Dwayne Wright, Rania Eldam, Lu Seka, M’Kina Tapscott, Kasey-Lynn Rodriguez. Cintrena J, Kara Souza, Cary Fagan, Nicole Sanchez, FIT, SVA, Kanye West, Natalia Donoso, Tacharra, Olivia Guillory, Ashley Sierra, Brittany Cannon, Alexis Rose, Dev Hynes, Rachel Massicott, Morgan Mbadugha, Diane Ratto, The Fader, Fujifilm, Jazz Cartier, Drake and Ovo Sound, Gold Link and Soulection, Texas Southern University, The cities of Austin, Houston, and Manhattan, The 2 Train, C Train and A Train, Duane Reade, Snapple Apple, Madison Square Garden, Nikon, K&M, The Highline Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum, Kaws, Tyler Mitchell, Justin R. Saunders, Vanessa Beecroft, Jamal Cyrus, Robert Pruitt, Alvia Wardlaw, Leamon Green, Deon Robinson, My parents and my sister, as well as my extended family.
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