Author Archives: paridust

Strawberry Girl to Queen Bee

A forest girl catches her own meaning in a twinkle of strength and vulnerability. On Lin Tianmiao’s textural revival of Protruding Patterns at Galerie Lelong, ideas manifested as forms rise up from …

Otherworld Idealist

Projecting the occult tinged femme fatale/femme fragile into an oxblood corner of the Guggenheim Museum is to reveal Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris,1892–1897. An annual exhibition created …

Glass Cherry Memory

Floating on the brink, I extend into Daniel Buren’s lenticular land of cascading columns where the artist has used his signature alternating 8.7 cm. wide stripe to christen Bortolami’s new, architecturally …

Portraits of Coco Crush

Fall for this, a three part act of playful melancholia punctuated by the emblematic matelassé, a quilted pattern originating in Neoclassical France. Quintessentially Chanel, the matelassé flourishes in a total work …

Triple Rhythm Spring

Super-charging the breakdown of fixed definitions and boundaries between things are a series of exhibitions alluding movements. The first shift in seasons I had seen, extending skin for spirit is this, …

Submissive Nature

Nature digitized or digitized nature one calls to question the genesis of human nature, mother nature, distilled down, here one in the same. teamLab, Transcending Boundaries, Pace London; Marques Almeida impressionable …

Seeking Bohemia

Resisting self-consciousness, free form silhouettes set the tone for visceral feelings. Seeking fluidity and a nonchalant buoyancy of spirit on my excursion to Paris for Fashion Week, I slip into the …

Sensory Stems in Self Creation

Style is a medium for self creation: to project an idea, deepen an experience, enrich an environment. To lead a visually cohesive life is the vision, to stay true and sensitive …

Silver Spoon Mystic

A silver spoon in golden section spirals into divine form figure space. Davide Balliano has created a galaxy of perfect proportions at Tina Kim Gallery for me to slip into Chanel Haute …

Fringe Formations

Moving fluidly between and without attachment to a specific medium is liberating. In a practice that calls to question the relationships between meaning and expression and at the pinnacle of image …