Women's International Month, 2014.

  10TH. WOMEN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION at the Latino Art Museum.

Latino Art Museum.
Photo By Pablo Unzueta

A Grief Observed

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being scared. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

At other times it feels like being mildly drunk or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me."

C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

The original photo

"Suffering without catharsis is nothing but wasted pain."

Elizabeth Gilbert 

News Paper Bag Collection Haute Handbag Magazine Spring 2014

 Newspaper Bag Collection featured six pages in the 2014 Spring issue of the Haute Handbag Magazine.

This collection features fabrics printed with newspaper themes, from the comic to the additional section, and there's even a foreign newspaper. I was inspired to design this collection as pure melancholy. There was something special about sitting at the table on Sunday mornings and browsing through the newspaper pages, mainly because it was an activity I had shared with my father at different times. So this collection is about remembering old times: me, the newspaper, and my father.

Reclaiming Old Journals

 As a nature lover, I was horrified to learn how much paper we waste. This means that the average American uses 7 trees a year, and to produce a ton of paper is required 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, and high-cost energy. For that reason, I saved old and clearance notebooks to reclaim them into beautiful and one-of-a-kind journals...

           

  Reuse, Recycle, Reduce!  

By monailtd.