Photography by Chia Chong
Styling by Libbie Summers
A game of tic-tac-toe…inspired by cinnamon and won by love.
Make your own spiced up tic-tac-toe board by laying out a beautiful piece of fabric. Then, put ground cinnamon in a squeeze bottle and squeeze out the spice along a flat edge (we used a heavy stock of paper for the edge) to draw the lines. Cinnamon sticks and flower petals are for the win. Like all relationships, the board is not meant to be perfect.
When I was ten, mom bought me a set of Christopher Columbus paper dolls from one of those newsprint Scholastic mailers. The punch-out dolls consisted of a dozen or so white men and a handful of natives, but I didn’t know what to do with them. This predated the PC police and Lies My Teacher Told Me, so I didn’t yet know that “discovery” is a euphemism for taking what isn’t rightfully yours. In other words, I didn’t have Columbus and his men fight with the natives; instead, they sat down together for the first Thanksgiving dinner.
I was pretty excited when I saw this awesome shoot the gals shot in NYC about knives, allowing me to tap in to my darker side (which isn’t too hard). Knives you say? Why not add some bullets to the mix? I adore this kick ass collar by Assad Mounser made with stainless steel bullet spike drops.
You can grow to understand the pearl of any piece of art (or music, or literature, or a meal, or anything, really) if you follow these three steps.
