HOME SERIES: COMPLETE

Since i left you off with piece #006, much has evolved and developed! Here are the last four drawings in my series of intergalactic landscapes. the originals will soon be available through my website, there will be no prints or copies made. also currently looking for new galleries, venues, coffeehouses, shops, bars and alternative art spaces for future shows. i'm open to collaborations as well with legit creatives and entrepreneurs.

in other news i've just been getting settled into the new house, playing around with djing and producing and enjoying the solitude of this chilly desert winter.

much love and winter solstice holiday blessings,

-kafka

HOME Series #010: The Shaman's Quest preview

(better quality images coming soon as well, some of my photography equipment got misplaced during the move)

HOME Series #009: Starbloods

HOME Series #008: Moonlit Circuitry

HOME Series #007: Divine Intervention

MORE NEW NEW NEXT LEVEL SHIT!

WELL.

I've been keeping busy lately and I'm excited to tell you my new website is up at www.kafkavodkalovesyou.com!

Its part resetcouture/fashion work but also includes my new jewelry line JUNKER JEWELS, my new series of wearable toxic flowers DOOMBLUMEN (both are up for sale now too so head on over and pick up a gorgeous neon explosion of toxic blooms!)....plus lots of other fun things like drawings and illustrations. Soon enough I'll have even more epic madness which will include a shitload of raging electro tracks and videos for you filthy pretty things! But until then check out this teaser of one of my up and coming music projects:
Two previews of album artwork from my next level electro dj/performance duo project with my homeboy Spencer, who is also IDM artist Ersatz Modem. We're called ICONOPLASTIX and we make skanky filthy basslines. The end.

Preview #1: Ninjas vs. Velociraptors

Preview #2: Fluorescent Facades Slutty Money re-fix

Comin' straight at you from the dirty south, you can expect our demo and mixtapes to drop before the month is over. Your ears are safe until then!! 

Love/Light xoxo

-Kafka

New Jewelry and Accessory Lines: Junker Jewels & DOOMBLUMEN

Project 1: DOOMBLUMEN

This is my new accessory line.

Flowers of Doom: A series of wearable, perilous perennials from the apocalypse. 

Flowering toxicity with blossoms of circumstance and pockets full of paragons!

DOOMBLUMEN Groupshot

Nonpareil Paragon Pin

Junglechrome Syndromes Pin

Effloresce Medusae Hairclip

Currently available in two styles: Hair clip/Barrette and Pins.


Project 2: JUNKER JEWELS: A Meditation on Opportunity and Potential

This is my new jewelry line.

These pieces are made mostly from found objects. What began as making cute "junk necklaces" turned into so much more: a question on the nature of value, an elaborate meditation on mental illness and a dialogue on the emotional life of attachments. 

  

Counterclockwise from top:
Junker Jewels 011: Mystical Vertebra and Junker Jewels 010: Prophetic Capacitor with Earthbound Repeaters Hairclip from my accessory line DOOMBLUMEN

Junker Jewels 0 0 3: Medusa Labyrinth Necklace

Junker Jewels 0 0 8: Redemption Uninhibited Necklace

Junker Jewels 0 0 5: Mainframe, Multidimensionality Necklace

Junker Jewels 0 0 2: Release Current Necklace

Junker Jewels 0 0 1: Monarch Project

Hoarding is "a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to acquire (and failure to use or discard) a significant amount of possessions, even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary."

My mother is a hoarder. 

With every trip to her house over the past few years I began to collect bits and pieces of her "collections." Hoarders seem to create their own value systems, one where a rusty old paperclip or a beat up sweater have just as much value as objects socially accepted to be valuable. Discount outlets, thrift stores and television shopping channels are havens for compulsive purchasing; not because the items are actually needed but because they are on sale or a good deal.

I wanted to question this idea of "value" and how these alternative systems are created. Here I create my own system but one where the objects live up to their inherent "potential" (although subverted). Where is the line drawn between "usefulness" and "excessive"? I sought to question the nature of emotions and possessions: how a mother could deprive a daughter of natural emotional development but attribute emotional lives to objects otherwise incapable of experiencing them? When you grow up with mental illness, everything is backwards. There is no normal. My mother's ownership and possession issues have extended beyond a house full of stuff into a full blow other world built around the emotional lives of objects. Its a delicate dance between these worlds...and I ask you: Where's the line drawn between beauty and squalor? Treasure, trash, its all perspective. Where's yours?

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More photos and information on both lines can be found on my site: Junker Jewels Official

and 

DOOMBLUMEN Official

Love and light,

Kafka Vodka