.origami mon ami

So what is this origami mon ami about? Well, rather obviously, I won’t be posting much about the conventional origami…hmmm, then let me explain.
Number one, but not so important, it’s a sort of an alter ego of mine – one of the few…or should I say one of many. The other alter ego, as you might have guessed, has a website for a long while already, and it’s unmistakably blackholebird.blogspot.com i.e. my portfolio. Thus blackholebird becomes a sort of euphemism for my long unpronounceable name, and so is origami mon ami, yet the concept is different.
Number two, yet foremost, it’s my new-born fashion label. It still can’t walk, it still can’t talk, it’s still sitting in the comfort of the nest. But I am very delighted to announce that it shall see the light of day very-very soon. I am holding a private vintage sale in our dear capital city, and of course the label launch is scheduled for the same day. What day? This is still a secret to be revealed, so check back soon for the wild and exiting.

And now a little bit of history: this is how .origami mon ami came to life – out of a cut-out phrase that got taped to a page in my drawing book
Cheers

happy new ears

This weekend’s financial breakdown left us (me and my second half, i.e. boyf) strategically placed in Kortrijk without any hope of getting out for a day or two…so this is what we naturally, as well as strategically did – we walked around the city following the wonderful parcours of the Happy New Ears festival.
Happy New Ears is an annual event organised by the Buda Kunstcentrum. It’s a music festival which is interactive and innovative, the whole city is transformed into a playground for sound artists, or rather a battle terrain, well, at least that’s how it sounds. Harsh noises, claustrophobic spaces, dark medieval settings …and after playing noise instruments/installations of human height, climbing to the 5th floor to listen to the sound pillows (note to the Liebaert enthusiasts – don’t by the 20sq. metres of heated floor – just spend some time in the boiling hot air of the BudaToren (note to myself – write more on Liebaert project later)), getting a headache from the compressed air music aka Pneumatic Sound Field by Edwin van der Heide, I was quite relieved to find a quiet and discreet pulsating loud speakers that moved tiny bits of dust, fuzz, red pigment, connected by fragile threads, represented in drawings, all casually displayed on a simple untreated wooden table.

La Table by Bart Vandevijvere and Laurent Rigaut - not for those who expect to be bombarded with images and sound - you'll have to search for little treasures here, pedantic as you can get, finding out the charm.

happy new blog

Who would have thought I’ll start blogging…well, initially, letting my opinion known to each and every isn’t my style so to say. But let’s just for a minute consider that my lovely ‘origami mon ami’ blog isn’t the rubbing-your-face-with-my-opinion type thing; see it as the informative and creative point (of view), remotely situated in the heart of West Flanders – the place with equally remote interest and taste in fashion/art/contemporary music, well…you know, peasant paradise/bourgeois hangout with full heart devotion to derision and finger-pointing at the ‘privileged’ few who do have the above mentioned interests. May be I’m making it sound rather drastic, but hey, dare to don anything in the style of Susie-‘Style bubble’, walk the city streets with me, collect the bewildered stares from the staggering number of people…or just imagine such occurrence and you’ll get the point.
You may ask yourself, why do I ever bother to have a blog then? Aha, remember the ‘privileged’ few? *deep and thoughtful smile a la the Cheshire cat*