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SILKE 

ARTISTS STATEMENT
I'm a colourful, frenetic, highly motivated individual. I'm a costume designer, stylist and mother to a five year old boy. My whole world revolves around art and motherhood, a challenging and massively rewarding combination. I rarely have time to really really look at myself. I Shot Myself felt like a chance to give myself the attention usually reserved for my son, and for the models I style in my work. Motherhood has changed so much about me, my body is different, my priorities are different, my role in society is different. Would it be shocking and uncouth for me to parade my sexuality, would that make me a slut? Can a mother be sexy, is she allowed to crave and desire? Can she put herself on a pedestal? I don't care anymore, what my culture tells me I should be. I AM sexy, and that does not make me any less of a parent.

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hallucinogene
Silke 'hallucinogene'
04 Feb 15
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ARTIST PROFILE
birthplace: Swan Hill, Australia.
currently living in: Preston, Australia.
occupation: Costumier/Stylist.
age: 33.
height: 5'7".
relationship status: Single.
starsign: Aries.
biggest passion in my life: My son and my art, I would do anything for both of them.
I like to listen to: loud music, laughing children and birds in the city, all make me feel like life is fun.
I like to watch: I love Terry Gilliam films, they always leave me feeling a little wrong and questioning reality.
I like to smell: mangoes, coconut and healthy sweat, all the delicious smells of summer.
I like to taste: mangoes, coconut and healthy sweat...
I like to feel: colourful, active and alive, my life is a loud performance and it rocks!
favourite part of my body: I have a gorgeous mole on my belly, it looks like a coco pop.
favourite part of someone else's body: Necks and backs are just irresistible, all stretchy and bendy.
Why i shot myself: To prove to myself that I'm as much a babe on the outside as I am inside.
who I'd least like to see shoot themselves: Tony Abbott, enough said.
who I'd most like to see shoot themselves: Yolandi Visser, she rocks my world.
my website/fav website: Advancedstyle.blogspot.com.
Most outrageous thing I have done: Giving birth, the most profound trip of my life.
Bands I like: Die Antwoord, The Mars Volta, Christeene.
Books I like: The Invisibles, Transmetropolitan.
Films I like: Cloud Atlas, Tideland, 2046.
other random stuff: I wanted to play with the idea of heroes and villains in this shoot. Which am I, and how does my sexuality and self perception relate to the themes of naughty and nice? I think sometimes that naughty IS nice, its a matter of perspective. I'm super turned on by colour and play. This is usually expressed through dressing other people up and drawing out their gorgeousness. This was a chance to focus on myself and really check myself out, which I haven't done for years. Honestly, it was a massive turn on. I found things about myself that I didn't know were hot (like my once perky bum, changed by childbirth, is even lovelier now that it has softened). I'm surprised how much I got off looking at myself, respectful narcissism ROCKS! I shot myself in my studio, it's in a really large warehouse, and whilst I was locked away in the privacy of my own room, I could hear all the other artists working in their spaces, this added another layer of naughtiness and tension to the shoot. I had many conversations over the studio walls, some knew what I was up to, some did not. I had such an excellent, cheeky time. Later in the shoot, I turned the lights down and cranked the music, and had a good singalong with one of the other artists. It was so much fun, I could honestly do that every day, it was strangely wholesome.


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