Anthropologie

So here are some of the images I said I would post of some of the things I worked on during my internship at Anthropologie as a visual display intern a week ago... oops.

what's up

I've been so busy! I feel like after I graduate I need to be put in a coffin for a 7 year nap. zzzz

My internship at Anthropologie is coming along very nicely. I love everyone there and I am finally getting the hang of things as I am about to graduate, of course. We just finished our earth day window display with painted on green/white circles and reused corks. and I am back to macrame-ing, which I might change into knitting if I can finagle that... I will try to get photos put up tomorrow.

I decided I should put up a picture of what I have been working on to foreshadow what will be in my first solo show... Very exciting right? I will look like a wrinkled raccoon by the end of it but hopefully I will make it till the end.

I think I am calling this piece Red Tsuna. I tried to reference tsuna (rope) found in sumo wrestling and shinto shrines.

sumo pic

shinto shrine

Now I have to figure out how to display it because I am not going to use mannequins. garhahlkfjdksalfanklhfd

internship

Started my new visual display internship with Anthropologie...

It was an interesting experience to see how to work in art within a business realm. How they organize the 'inspiration board' and the visual displays of their shops is art studio-esque but with little minions in stores across the country who carry out their head vision. They also have a found objects room which is something I want in my own house. No wait, I NEED it.

I appreciate the collaborative aspect of this internship and I am really excited to learn new things. I am not so excited to dress like everything I own is from Anthropologie, which is one of the rules of working there. "Before you put something on, think 'would Anthropologie sell this?".... uhm no? I'm screwed. I already broke a rule on my first day wearing my dinosaurs skateboarding vans. Apparently no sneakers. I will miss wearing my troll sweater even if others wont.

I am not sure how I will fit in with the rest of the people that work there, but I was perfectly comfortable with macrame-ing for my entire shift. Apparently we are doing a macrame backdrop for part of the store. Although I know macrame was ruined by the 70's, there are some people that know how to make that shit sweeeet.

Eleanor Amoroso's work. images from knitkicks.co.uk

left image:

don't know who it's by but url is...

http://www.ttdm.org/2011_02__Crochet-Fabric-Crochet-Macrame.html

and right image:

garment by julie eilenberger from her flickr.

note to self:

maybe black is the key to sleek and modern macrame?