no-ise/
the distress issue
ART / PEOPLE / FASHION expressed through different channels of communication
3 12 interview
sweet & sour me
photographer: owen devalk/ model: meagan henry / contributor: monica varela/ stylist: natalia colichon/
married to the night
interviewing: laura casal/ SCAD student/ junior/ major: fashion design/
photographer: owen devalk/ model: alex filipowski/ we explore Laura’s contributor: claudia leal/ world and her medium of stylist: natalia colichon/ expression.
4 let them play hide-and-seek
photographer: matt slade/ model: isa asensio/ poem by: daniela molina/ stylist: natalia colichon/ this shoot is an exploration of the struggle an individual goes through while searching for their true self. It demonstrates how society corrupts the process of the individual.
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article: studio 54/
this article is about studio 54, and how it was more than just a discotheque, but a way of expression through fashion.
contributors If you were an emoji which one would you be? why?
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Owen DeValk - Photographer
“I would be the because I am very go with the flow and I try not to take things too seriously. What good does worrying do? “
03.
Meagan Henry - Model
“ , because I’m sweet but super sour, and full of light with tough sking :) I also use it the most”
02.
Matt Slade - Photographer
“ I’d be the because I like to keep it weird and I always try and stay next level. I look to the future in everything I do, never to the past, I want to believe. ”
04.
Alex Filipowski - Model
“ because I am quirky and constantly find myself thinking life to be comical...but I also hope to live my life through kindness and if I can make anyone giggle, or brighten anyone’s day by just a little bit, than I am a very happy girl:)
05.
Isa Asensio - Model
06.
“I would be the because its freaking awesome and reminds me of summer (also thats my awkward expression 24/7)”
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Claudia Leal - Collaboration
“ because it reminds me of a quote form Alan Watts “Going out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind, you come to your senses.”
Monica Varela - Collaboration
“ since I was little I have had friendly dreams with crocos. With time it has become my spirit animal. ”
Editor’s Letter
Dear friends and lovers, Every now and then it feels good to express your true self without the fear of being called “weird”. In this issue, we celebrate those who feel outside of this world but are afraid to make themselves be known, further for their inner beauty. This issue was inspired by dissociative identity disorder, a condition in which people get lost by an instant disconnection of one’s thoughts, memories, feelings, actions and sense of identity. When an artist or designer draws a sketch, that sketch is the representation of an emotion. An emotion so beautiful and different that it begs to be shown. We believe that art is the sphere of feelings and sentiments of a person arising from their direct experience. As a result we have chosen to come together to make no-ise to those hidden personalities and the beauty behind each one. It may not go with your set of values, but at the end of the day, no thoughts are ever the same. We live in a world with a population of approximately seven billion people, containing fourteen billion personalities. So let’s embrace the glorious mess that we are! love, natalia colichon editor-in-chief
SWEET & SOUR ME intoxicated and in love with madness
Photographer: Owen DeValk Model: Meagan Henry Contributor: Monica Varela
“ I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched. ” -edgar allan poe-
“ The creative adult is the child who survived after the world tried killing them, making them “grown up”. The creative adult is the child who survived the blandness of schooling, the unhelpful words of bad teachers, and the nay-saying ways of the world. The creative adult is in essence simply that, a child.” -Ursula K. Le Guin -
married to the night she was just trying to escape reality. her daily intake of sour beverages made her world fade away. she floated around unconscious of the painful void she had inside. at the end that’s all she really wanted, to forget. writer: natalia colichon
Photographer: Owen DeValk Model: Alex Filipowski Collaboration: Claudia Leal Stylist: Natalia Colichon
What Comes After
If you were to die right now Who would leave the light on for you?
Would it be your father, praising a worthy foe while your mother counted the lashes; Would it be winter, dragging with it the vengeful winds and slithering frost; Or would it be TV static and sleeping pills, Smothering ambitions while drinking your waning spirit.
What then, dear traveler? To rest safely in the soft security of the unknown, or lose yourself to the gaping maw waiting by your feet. What limbs will be left when simple indecision breaks, and the light remains dark and you remain lost. - Owen DeValk,
“too weird to live, too rare to die.” -panic at the disco-
LAURA CASAL The girl with blue hair... by: natalia colichon
Tell us about where you grew up? I was born and raised in Puerto Rico. Being a tropical island in the Caribbean, I grew up around a lot of green and blue. The beach and my grandparents’ farm in the rural country side of Puerto Rico were my favorite places since I can remember. I used to make myself wrap dresses with my grandmother’s fabrics and run through the fields, slide down mountains on a cardboard box. When I’d go to the beach, I would collect so many seashells and sand dollars. I still have hefty bags full of years worth of scavenging for those treasures! What were you like as a kid? My mother is an artist and an interior designer, so I grew up around a lot of painting and crafting sessions. My mother would hand me her art supplies to keep me entertained while she worked. I was very crafty when I was a kid; I loved making little purses with scrap fabric. I was [and still am] an art supply hoarder; pencils, colored pens, tiny sketchbooks, stationery, paint, paint brushes, fabric swatches, you name it… I collected it! I also loved dressing up with my mom’s long skirts and heels and dance to Eiffel 65 and Roxette. Where do you find inspiration? I find most of my inspiration in bodies. My love for sewing, making clothes and painting the nude body stemmed from my fascination of human anatomy, the movement of the body, different gender and body types, and the emotion of body language. Living in an island has expanded my horizon as an artist, I find inspiration in everything that surrounds me and I interpret what I see through my art, my sketches, my paintings and even the garments I sew.
Tell us a little about your paintings… I like to explore different techniques and mediums. One of my favorite mediums is watercolors. Usually, I paint on large canvases with acrylics and I use coffee on most of my paintings to give it a natural watercolor-like effect. I drink coffee everyday, even while I paint , so using coffee on the paintings is my way to personalize and incorporate a part of myself on the piece. I like painting nude bodies, usually with their faces covered, because I like the body to speak the emotion and allow the viewer to visualize himself/herself as the body and feel what the body in the painting would feel. Describe your work in one word… Sincere. How do you identify yourself? I am a passionate artist. What would we find in your closet? Velvet everything [Shirts, skirts, dresses, pants] and a lot of prints! Black tights, platform shoes and my hiking boots. [I don’t hike, though] Do you have any strange habits? Too many to count! I guess one strange habit is that I like to play dress up with my friends when I am experiencing ‘artist’s block’. I’m talking about full on make-up, wigs, feathers, glitter… it helps my ‘creative juices’ flow. I think it is one of the reasons that I have blue hair; it keeps me creative!
Everyday is a game of hide-and-seek. A game in which people are constantly shifting characters in order to hide the one that represents them. Each character is altered depending on the environment they are surrounded by. If you could send a message to people, what you it be ? Everyone is an artist; we are all creative in our own way. Sometimes it takes a little time to find who you are in life and through art, but every step along the way is magical, do not be afraid to test your boundaries. I found myself in art when I was a child, and life ever since has been a journey to who I am today as an artist and an individual.
LET THEM PLAY HIDE & SEEK
Today’s society is composed by destructive ingredients. Ingredients such as judgment, jealousy and hate. Due to this, people have created a set of masks, masks that prevent hurt from coming in. Should you never make assumptions without actual facts. Let the games begin, and remember, don’t get lost in what’s not real. writer: natalia colichon Photographer: Matt Slade Model: Isa Asensio
Searching for no one but yourself. Confused by the lies. As I look out the window to the city lights I wonder. I don’t need to look at the sky to see the stars. Those very well could be my stars. The moon is in a bottle. I’m trapped inside a bottle. Contemplating my existence. Everything I do is taken away by the wind. Like sand grains in a beach. Those are my thoughts. When will my sandcastle stand firm? Never. Ideas change like the wind does. So? Who am I in the end? I am my dreams and ideas. Identity is an illusion.
Confused by the lies You’re looking for no one But yourself. Will you ever know Who you are? Time is oblivious to your sentiments. Your existence is felt Through a glass wall. There. But never actually a part of. Like living in a desert of Reminiscences and forgotten voices. Your voice is a lost echo. In and indifferent sea of people. Life is an endless nightmare. A nightmare from which one is freed by death. Is it some kind of awakening? But waking up to what? That leap into “eternity” or “nothingness” is filled with uncertainty. It cannot be learned only felt.
Photographer: Matt Slade Model: Isa Asensio
Everyone says death is not the answer But are not convinced about life either. Eternity. Infinity. Endlessness. Horizons. And death. All knitted in a thread called Time. What is time? Is it that anonymous ticking of the clock on my wall? The thread just keeps unraveling Oblivious to our emotions. Oblivious to our destiny. Indifferent to the making and breaking of love. Indifferent to our encounters with death. Time. Immense and complicated. Filled with events and unmade decisions. A river flowing rapidly... And at other times calm Almost immobile. But Out there in the desert, Someone listens to your forgotten melody. It’s the rhyme of another epoch. You don’t walk in a desert filled with forgetfulness. You walk in an evergreen park, Where forgetting isn’t a virtue. Where today is not the same as yesterday, Or the day after. Everything falls into place eventually, We just don’t know how Or when the pieces are placed. You walk, Knocking on doors that exist only for you. Carrying the weight of passion on your shoulders. Nevertheless, that weight has An extraordinary beauty of its own. Passion creates. Passion builds. Passion destroys. A life without passion is no life at all. A life without passion is a flat existence.
I must have traveled in leap years for What seemed forever. From seven until never, With the power of painted speech Ideas are drops of blue transparent tingles Falling upwards to the sky. They disappear.
Pigmented pearl at a harbour. I too, Became a voice in the pond. You only run from yourself. The night icicles fall fast. I like using the ice of nightfall, To rejuvenate myself.
You have to paint the beauty out there For you to see. Dawn brings the promise of a new tomorrow. After all, mistakes are what dreams are made of. Don’t settle for a life that consists only On pasting run-on-sentences. Although I found everything always Too good to be true.
- Daniela Molina, 22 years old.
when fashion fell in love with disco... Located in 254 W. 54TH St. in Manhattan, New York, Studio 54 was more than a discotheque, it was a place where fashion fell in love with disco. Started by the socialites and entrepreneurs, Steve Robell and Ian Schrager, Studio 54 collided fashion, art, music and sex and created a legendary New York City nightclub. With a reputation for glamour, Studio 54 was an era of madness and self- expression. Sequins, platforms sandals, wrap dresses, glitter and more, Robell and Ian just wanted a “salad” of rich, famous, young and beautiful people. “the intensity of the place, had something to do with the fact that everybody recognized that they were experiencing a brief moment of magic.” -PapageorgeSome regular visitor, to name a few, were: Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Calvin Klein, and Cher. People who have left their mark in the world by being themselves and not taking into consideration what society had to say. With a busy waiting line, the only way to gain access is by the approval of the main doorman, Mark Benecke in other words the “judge”. It was said that the success of Studio 54 was because it was a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor. Once inside, everyone was equal. People who attended Studio 54, threw their daily masks away and exposed their naked self. It was the perfect opportunity for them to get a daily dose of charged electricity and freedom.
“ A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or the others crazy ?” - Albert Einstein-
“everybody must have a fantasy” - andy warhol written by: natalia colichon