“Eventually everything connects ~ people, ideas, objects…the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.” ~ Charles and Ray Eames My first gig out of college was as a Hilla Rebay intern at…
“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.” ~oscar wilde ~~~~~~~ I love color, and I love the absence of color even more. I…
“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train.There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the…
“Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” ~ Albert Einstein I came to Raj through his name. Someone mentioned it, and it was mentioned again, and then again. And my…
“I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads” ~Gabriel Garcia Lorca I met Angelo on a boat in the Bay. It was the day…
“The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.”…
“Walking with a loaded rifle in an unfamiliar forest bristling with the signs of your prey is thrilling. It embarrasses me to write that, but it is true. I am not by nature much of a…
“What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.” ~ miuccia prada My daughter Royal has a voice… she has a voice…
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” ~ Nelson Mandela Above ~ Yohji Yamamoto in Tokyo, opening still from…
“Dream… how I dream to feel…Dream… how I dream to feel, And everything will fill with light…A golden sun would fool this night, And all that is and ever was. Begin again. Begin again…To feel, finally…
“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that…
“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.” ~ Gilbert Chesterton I met Erin Scott years ago through her Rockridge boutique AUGUST that she opened with Louesa Roebuck,…