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Rachelojay photos MK



windowposing petersham

Need this to catch on guys, 'Window Posing' :)

 

The Museum of Everything at Selfridges

pictures by rachelojay

This is the fourth Museum of Everything show and this edition focuses on art made in studio workshops from around the world, including from Japan, Brazil, Germany and Australia.
These studio workshops have become part refuge, part studio, safe havens for the troubled individuals who use them. The show occupies a specially constructed warren of dimly-lit rooms in the basement of Selfridges department store in Oxford Street. Selfridges has allowed art through the door before, but it is an unlikely and discordant setting.
Mostly produced by people who suffer a variety of psychological, neurological or physical problems, the art is often fascinating, winning, hugely talented (in a narrow kind of way), but falls outside the cultural and social mainstream, mostly because it is neither intended as art nor produced with other viewers in mind. There's no sense of development or critical distance.
There's Alan Constable, a visually impaired Australian who makes great, clunky ceramic models of cameras, and produces paintings of people looking at things.
Michael Gerdsman crochets electrical goods – mobiles, a hairdryer, microphones, and pot plants, while Raimundo Camilo obsessively draws over Brazilian banknotes with a ballpoint pen, encrusting them with whorls and faces and tiny patterns. Austrian Joseph Hofer creates scenes of himself masturbating, and Harald Stoffers writes relentlessly garbled letters to his mother on huge sheets of paper, in a hectoring graphic scrip that's frequently illegible, and which he never sends.
Stoffers' screeds of text look like the kind of thing one of the ranting characters in a Thomas Bernhard novel might produce, but we must remember that the authors of the works here are driven by more than art, or literature, or even a childlike creativity.

pictures by rachelojay

pictures by rachelojay

Brett has turned Selfridge's "Ultralounge" into a kind of depressing stage set, a grotto for the out-of-kilter.
Brett has put blown-up versions of some of the work in window displays along Selfridges' Oxford Street frontage, accompanied by his hand-drawn signage. It all feels inappropriate.

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The work itself is the thing, but that's worrying too. An Italian draws lingerie-clad, high-heeled women and space rockets, overlaying disjointed texts and detailing conspiracy theories, the evils of technology and global crisis.
Another produces a kind of concrete poetry – except the typed words evidence a mind that keeps getting stuck on single words, single objects, single thoughts.
These are immensely painful, as are the dozens of examples of writings in secret languages, crazy maths, and model architectural follies of an impossible grandeur and desperation.
There is no analysis, or clue to what any of it might mean (and who can guess, apart from the creators) and Brett's wall descriptions give only the barest information.
Brett would have us see the work like any other art. It isn't, and requires something other than mute appreciation or a shopper's eye. This article could be found at The Guardian.

pictures by rachelojay

pictures by  rachelojay

From ROME, SPAIN- with Love x



GUESS

Holiday-ing in Europe takes window art and dressing to an inspiring dimension, Moncler's futuristic window display is a typical example and isn't Bvlgari's just breath-taking?

Also loving the Bus Stop here at Guess, the demin on display gives you the motivation you need to explore the world of capri jeans and Yep! all my designer bags are packed up ready to head to the next amazing visual display.



Futuristic at MONCLER



BVLGARI Jewellery

WINDOW SHOPPER'S NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

picture from the Dailymail

Like a dreaded disease, the UK riots seeped through the pores of inner cities and ravaged it beyond repair. Rioters, looters or sheer undisciplined folks from disjointed homes, whatever they tag themselves-it was a moment of madness spreading like a rash and the itch, just made it worse.

picture from vancouver sun

"Man has ceased to be man
Man has become beast
man has become prey"
...and mannequins were victims.






I did a bit of research and decided to share some of the heart wrenching photos from the incidence which saw creativity, fashion and art disrespected, ridicled -burnt to the ground.

picture from Reuters

What a waste!

Picture from the Mail

THE CHEESY SALE POEM

OH! that big red banner that says SALE
Its the best turn on- more than any MALE
Its the declaration that prices have come crashing,
though sometimes, this could be quite misleading.

When its 75 percent, it could be hard to find something recent.
However, it does feel like eureka-
when you find something that could last forever.

SALE, the window shopper's dream...or so it seams

TOPSHOP OXFORD STREET, LONDON WINDOW DISPLAYS

PICTURES BY RACHEL-OJAY