Going on week 2 of my weekly art blog. Thank you for tuning in. This blog is about the life in the arts and about the many random side quests one must take to reach the next destination. As I said in the last post, I’m interested in writing right now… and documenting the stories of this time. I am grateful to have this platform to share this part of my life with you and for any of you who show support and read this.
Elements
Yesterday I hosted a photoshoot at my studio for my upcoming clothing release. I’ve been working on a series of abstract bleach denim inspired by the different elements. Each pair of jeans is hand dyed by yours truly and hopes to encapsulate, in abstract form, the different characteristics of fire, air, water, thunder, and energy. In addition to the jeans I will be releasing my new embroidered hats and my first every series of shorts. I never designed shorts cause I never wore shorts then i thought id tattoo my knees to give me more reasons to wear shorts. Now im releasing shorts! A shorts tale!
Anyways for the photoshoot I had an idea to throw a pizza party for my models, friends and phtoographers. What I’m trying to accomplish here is to create new epxperiences that blend the carriers between art, creativity in life. Sometimes, it seems like we go from “work mode” to “creative mode” to “business and marketing mode” to “party mode”… when I’m wondering why we can’t combine all of this into one fluid experience. What I’m realizing is that most everyone, no matter where they are coming from, are just looking for positive vibrations to enjoy life - positive people, motives, creations, experiences…. these are the kind of people I want to attract with the things I am designing. Yesterdays photoshoot was a prototype to seeing just how far we can take this idea…a true lifestyle… one that only needs to be captured and not fabricated.
The new series will be released on May 12th at a popup at my store Blooms Emporium in Ponce City Market (Atlanta)… I’m going to release everything in-store ONLY first, then it will be available online. Please keep a tab on my socials to see some previews in the next few weeks.
Here is a preview of the dragon hat, only for you blog readers exclusively!!! They don’t even know about this yerrrrt
Critical Mass
I am learning what it means to create mass in your life. Just like plants and objects, your life can have mass. I have been investing into this mass by increasing my trust in God/universe/idk what to call it yet… the source. Recently, I am challenging myself by trying to identify times when I start to feel anxiety or the need to control situations or outcomes. This can be expressed through business, art, and relationships. When things do not go according to plan, I find that in these moments is the moment of critical decision. We can either go more into worry, anxiety, fear of the unkown… or faith… which begins to understand that everything is happening for a specific reason at a specific time. I have been so pleasantly surpsired in my life how much things really do work out, and that we can just trust that it will. The catch is that you can’t also try to control your life while also letting go… it’s a choice. When your posture becomes one more of trust, you gain a deeper level of wisdom and understanding, which translates to more powers, and therefore more mass. And just like the planets, the larger the mass the more energy it attracts to it. This is the exact same truth for life… Trust more and everything will start shifting. The things which you desire will begin not only to appear to you, they will start finding you. Idk if I’m explaining it in a way that makes sense… but the more you jump the more the universe will meet you. It is the law of attraction and is a true law.
NEXT UP
so what’s next? Well, Im setting out to sell out all of my classes at Ponce City Market this month of August… so if you want to take an art class, please consider signing up! The link to the art class info and tickets is here.
But other than that, I’m focussing on gearing up for this release and getting back into some new tattoos. I’m getting to do a tiger this Friday and I can’t WAIT. It’s going to be next level.
Thank you guys for reading. I’ll you next time, and take care of yourselves.
Andrew Blooms