moodboards and how we collaborate with you

“Being an artist is about living

in the uncomfortable zone.”

Mihaela Ivan Holtz, Psy.D., LMFT.

You have come to us because you likely can’t do normal. I am really happy you are here. I promise to bring to the table an anti-herd perspective. it works a bit like this. you show us what you love, we absorb and out comes a hybrid of us all. A bit like brain sex and brain babies.

our inspirations come from painting by both the masters and the modern, music, and the vintage pages of vanity fair, Rolling Stones and vogue. Folded in to this is the severe romance and decadence by debutant portraits of Cecil Beaton and haunting works by the first images on wet plate. In fact I own one of these antique wet collodian cameras. i’ll tell you too that I love the early 80’s playboy steam, their vaseline edges and nylon stocking blur.

that quote above also speaks to my commitment to learn a new medium every year. In covid it was wet-plate, my guru James millar, a renowned English wet plate artist and teacher even came to my house to help me set up the perfect dark room. I then I moved onto analogue again after having played with it in the early 2000’s and acquired a beautiful vintage Leica M7. in 2022, with the help of YouTube, i taught myself how to use a medium format camera. I am now the proud owner of some very sexy vintage mamiya cameras. in 2023, I found a wildly respected artist by the name of Onno Petersen in Amsterdam and begged him to teach me how to use a 8mm analogue cinematic camera AKA ‘super 8’ (home video of the 50s/60s and 70s). he helped me find the best canon zoom super 8 and showed me the ropes. each and every year I am pushing limits and looking for clients that are not interested in the hanging dress shot.

let’s push some boundaries together and make some brain babies.