I’m a little hoarder. I think we all are. We all form
attachments to things we love, found or wore simply because they have some form
of sentimental value attached to them. However, I’d like to think that I hoard
with purpose, with a sense of investment. I like to keep things that may
increase in value somewhere a long the period of my living or perhaps my
grandchildren’s. Nevertheless, my hoarding not only has meaning and sentiment
attached to it but also a sense of practicality and economical value.
I
strongly believe in upcycling or making new things out of old things or turning
boring things into interesting things. The transformation of anything from
scratch to a finished product is a thrilling process for me. And one of my biggest
hoarding habits is collecting magazines. I find it physically difficult to let
go of all these amazing images and photographs of fabulous things. Although I must
admit, even though I myself am a stylist, I often forget to look at the credits and simply treasure the image because I've fallen it love with it, and if I love it so much, I will
store it. I have an archive full of images ripped out of magazines that are
chaotically organised into sub categories; from beauty, style, art, fashion
icons to patterns, having created my own
little time capsule of what inspires me.
These images have a purpose, they always do, they often serve as a base
for art work, paintings, collages or simply making something old new and funky.
One of my most recent inventions was taking a simple
sketchbook and giving it a bit of me ie character:
A long haul of lots of little characteristic pages, littered bits from magazines and old articles are used to create something that makes it unique, identifiable and totally in tune with my character. #loveit
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