My Silk Roads: The Start of a Scarf

By Susan Aurinko

You tie an attractive silk scarf round your neck, and off you go, completely accessorized. But it’s possible you by no means considered how that scarf got here to be, who designed it, what impressed it, who printed the completed design on the silk? This month I’m going to take you on MY silk highway and present you the way a number of of my LensFlair Edition scarves got here to life.

Let’s begin with the Morikami lengthy scarf. Morikami’s origin story started at its namesake Japanese Garden in Delray Beach, Florida, the place my husband and I’ve a house. I used to be wandering within the backyard a few years in the past with my digital camera, taking a look at all of the fascinating shadows that fell on the forest ground. I glanced at a concrete bench beneath some palmettos, and observed how the shadows crisscrossed the bench, forming placing patterns. Captivated, I photographed the bench from a number of angles. I noticed that repeated twice the {photograph} would make a beautiful lengthy scarf! Later I photographed the precise scarf on the identical bench in addition to in Chicago on my lovely mannequin, Marielle. The most fascinating factor about this straight {photograph} being on a shawl is that the tiny leaves that fell on the bench every have their very own shadow, giving it a three-dimensional impact. If you’re ever within the space, spend a while on the backyard and museum, it’s fabulous! https://morikami.org/ 

Examples of Poesie Squares

If you’re an everyday reader of this column you should have heard in regards to the wild adventures of the primary photo-expedition after I started Lensflair Editions in 2012. I had been gathering pictures of graffiti and torn posters on partitions in lots of international locations I visited as a photographer and determined it might be fascinating to show a bunch of probably the most provocative pictures right into a grid to make a shawl from. Little did I do know that years later I might flip that grid into a whole sequence of scarves titled “Poesie des Affiches” – Poetry of the Posters. The first grid is now referred to as The Original, and the others titled by colour. The second was altered by my first collaborator, Federica Ghidelli, who added a layer of texture from one other {photograph} of mine over the grid – we titled it Europa. After that, I started experimenting with colour leading to an entire rainbow of Poesie scarves!

I’ve lately had the good success to license the work of the late outsider artist Purvis Young from the Larry T Clemons assortment. My posthumous collaboration with this large of outsider artwork has up to now produced 4 great scarves, two lengthy scarves and two squares. The simplicity and but sophistication of Young’s artwork is a pleasure to work with. These scarves are the one ones I’ve created that don’t include any of my images – I merely designed lovely scarves utilizing Young’s work and drawings in varied methods. I studied a whole bunch of items and selected those that match my imaginative and prescient after which included them into my designs. It’s been a problem but an excellent pleasure to work with the artwork of somebody whose life was so extremely completely different from my very own.

I’m thrilled to have had the chance to share my course of with you. I hope you’ll spend a while on the web site and get to know all of the scarves which have been born on My Silk Roads! www.lensflaireditions.com 

Until subsequent time, be type, take pleasure in life, and decorate with scarves!

Warmly,

Susan