The Mirror Meditations Collection
As a young girl, I often avoided looking at myself in the mirror. I did not fit the beauty ideal of the time. And then there was the whole spending a year in a body cast after scoliosis surgery. I struggled seeing the good, inside or out.
During that time, I was introduced to the idea of affirmations -- saying something kind to myself, even if I didn’t yet believe it. At the beginning, all I could come up with was “I like your ears, kid.” It was something.
Over the years, I've used affirmations as part of my daily morning routine. For the last year, that has meant reminding myself to move through my day with gratitude. Or simply remembering that I love myself. It's a life-long process.
I teach a Gratitude Meditation here in Los Angeles. And this line of hoodies grew from sharing my own morning Mirror Meditations practice with my students. Now I share it in wearable form.
THE COLLECTIONS
HOLIDAYS MY WAY
Whether birthdays or Christmas, or any holiday in-between, I was always searching for wrapping paper and holiday decor that was MY style, not some hodge-podge of corporate same-ness. Now I share my take on a modern, fun, holiday aesthetic.
MIRROR MEDITATIONS
Mirror Meditations apparel is readable when the wearer looks at it in the mirror. Each piece is designed to be a personal reminder to urge us to check in with ourselves each day...or at the very least give us a reason to smile.
MUDD CLUB KIDS
The 80s -- pop art, clubs like Danceteria, Mudd Club, Club 57, Paradise Garage, Fun House, CBGB, the fashion, colors, people, music -- all of that lives on in each piece, curated by Cyd, the secret club kid. You may now enter.
The NEW Other
"Othering" is a way of marginalizing those who are deemed to be outside of the acceptable or societal norm.
It's traditionally associated with race, gender, socio-economics, ethnicity, religion...anything where one group is held out as the standard above all others.
Over the last decade, The Tribe of Otherness has so fully embraced our multi-faceted identities that we have changed the cultural and political landscape as The New Other brings a vital POV to the zeitgeist. Now we can celebrate that by wearing it proudly. xoxo
The Sojourn Collection
Home fashion decor inspired by memories of favorite travels around the globe, and imbued by remnants of my ancestry now living within my mixed media and digital art.
Come along for the adventure, and make the sojourn your own!