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When I was about 13 years old, my English teacher told me that "saudade" was an untranslatable Portuguese word. This event has filled my thoughts for a while now, I have wondered ever since how such a common feeling could not be this easily expressed in any other language. Google translates it to "nostalgia", "longing", "yearning", "missing". these words don't do "saudade" any justice. I have been feeling it all my life and never been able to properly verbalize it. This is my attempt to communicate it. I imagine that viewers of this publication will not necessarily fully understand my intention, but I sure hope they might feel it too. This is an ode to a time that is over, yet very much alive - an interpretation of its presence. this work is informed by and reliant on 60's precedents, combining my admiration and thankfulness for this period. I wasn't there and I miss it. There is much of today that was instigated by that time's originality; change is a 60's child. This is a celebration of that innovation and an "amen" to reinvention. (Plus, you know something's virtuous when you have "avant-garde" and "bohemian" in the same sentence.)

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When I was about 13 years old, my English teacher told me that "saudade" was an untranslatable Portuguese word. This event has filled my thoughts for a while now, I have wondered ever since how such a common feeling could not be this easily expressed in

any other language.Google translates it to "nostalgia", "longing", "yearning",

"missing". these words don't do "saudade" any justice. I have been feeling it all my life and never been able to properly verbalize it.

This is my attempt to communicate it.I imagine that viewers of this publication will not necessarily fully understand my intention, but I sure hope they might feel it

too.

This is an ode to a time that is over, yet very much alive - an interpretation of its presence. this work is informed by

and reliant on 60's precedents, combining my admiration and thankfulness for this period. I wasn't there and I miss it. There is much of today that was instigated by that time's originality;

change is a 60's child. This is a celebration of that innovation and an "amen" to

reinvention.

(Plus, you know something's virtuous when you have "avant-garde" and

"bohemian" in the same sentence.)

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I' D LIKE

I ' D L I K E Y O U T O J O I N M E

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it's 1968 in 2012.I am now 63 years old, born in '92.

I' D LIKE

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&&hedonism - free love - way-out clothes - drainpipe jeans -wet look vinyl fashions - five point cut - mary poppins - the audio cas-set - acrylic paint - fake eyelashes - space age - peter pan collar - clean music - culottes - peace signs - go-go boots - woodstock - cool dance moves - anoraks - paisley prints - the french new wave - self-expression - highlighter colours - flower power - a-line shape - psychedelia - PVC dresses - patterned tights - paper dresses - controversy - freshness - tie-dye - batik fabrics - bee-hive hairdoos - star trek - violence - bob bylan - bell-bottoms - beads - the mini skirt - the beatles phenomena - counterculture - hitcock's "psyco" - LSD - smoky parties - martin luther king - valium - mods - rising feminism - rockers - social change - putting a man on the moon - the summer of love - pop - op - kennedy -the halogen lamp

I can no other answer make, butthanks, and thanks and ever thanks for:

"

"

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& NEOPHILIA

I can no other answer make, butthanks, and thanks and ever thanks for:

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they live between/

within/ through

us.

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n s

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look how fashions and ideals of today are

shaped by baby boomers.

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6b r i g h t

b r a s h

b r a z e n

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6b r i g h t

b r a s h

b r a z e n

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a is for apple,b is for biba.

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a is for apple,b is for biba.

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Great fashion ideas and themes never really die - it is by embrassing this cyclical nature of successful aesthetics that one can continually find new ways to reinvent the past and improve upon it.

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Great fashion ideas and themes never really die - it is by embrassing this cyclical nature of successful aesthetics that one can continually find new ways to reinvent the past and improve upon it.

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SH E R I T A G E

SSH E R I T A G E

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SH E R I T A G E

rethinkrecontextualizerethinkrecontextualizerethinkrecontex

SSH E R I T A G EH E R I T A G EH E R I T A G E

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Y e s t e r d a y , a l l m y t r o u b l e s s e e m e d s o f a r a w a y /

N o w i t l o o k s a s t h o u g h t h e y ' r e h e r e t o s t a y /

O h , I b e l i e v e i n y e s t e r d a y

S u d d e n lY i ' m n o t h a l f t h e m a n I u s e d t o b e /

T h e r e ' s a s h a d o w h a n g i n g o v e r m e /

O h , y e s t e r d a y c a m e s u d d e n ly

N o w I l o n g f o r y e s t e r d a y .

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you went off swinging London and forgot to come back�

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you went off swinging London and forgot to come back�

That Spring, as never before in modern time, London was switched on. That Spring, as never before in modern time, London was switched on.

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and change.

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"saudade" is folloied soli-tude, it is when the love is not gone yet,but the loved one is."saudade" is to love a past that has not yet passed, to refuse a pres-ent that hurts, to refuse an inviting future. It hurts to feel it. it hurts even more not to.

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"Golden ticket"mixed media collage;illustration

"IT's sensational"mixed media collage

"The icons "seriescyanotype photography;self-portraits

"Bright, brash, brazen"photos taken in london;marbling

"b is for biba"Collage with photo taken in kesingtonchurch street

"heritage" seriescollages with photos taken in king's road

"swinging london"photos taken in london; collage; illustration

"vulnerability"mixed media collage

"clothes should live" seriesdigital collages;grandmother's photos