Inspiration comes when you are not provoking it; it comes at night, during a walk, a dream, an encounter, while reading a book or listening to a song. Inspiration comes at an unexpected moment, as a surprise. Sorrow and joy can inspire just as pain or pleasure can. Inspiration can produce a state of ecstasy or a jolt to your heart. Inspiration comes with trial and error; sometimes an experiment seems to be a turning point, a point of no return, it takes form like a collage, double images, black and white shadows that shuffle to produce a moment of change. That moment is as precious as a moment of silence and contemplation; no return, the circle is round. Dreamers are the artists of time; they are the world changers; they are driven by creativity because they need to change the flow of history! Without them the world would be endlessly boring and therefore we adore them, we give them the applause they need to continue realizing their dream. The Man Ray experiment, counterposed with the Maison Margiela cut outs give the viewer a moment of joy; they propose an intriguing perception of time as the click of the camera and the cut of the fabric are decisive moments. in making. As Germano Celant said in the catalogue of the Art and Fashion Biennale of 1996 in Florence, “To cut is to think”. He further writes “The cut of the scissor is like the click of the camera, like a stroke of the pencil or paintbrush: all these acts are decisively isolate. A form or representation, marking a surface that generates a reality”. Thanks to Germano Celant, fashion and photography are the arte povera of today's future.
Mrs Linda Loppa, independant Advisor Strategy and Vision, Curator, Coach, Writer
