let lemons be angry

styling experiment for samantha's shoot:

I once thought it would make me a well-rounded woman if I picked up knitting. I bought needles and yarn with christmas money and traipsed over to my grandmother's house to make her teach me how to make two kinds of knots. One skinny scarf and half a thick scarf later, I decided that my yarn looked better half finished, with the needles still in place. I stuck a few pearl pins into the half-eaten ball and now it sits on my shelf as a perfect prop.

With the rest of the yarn, I did this.






The model was tiny and slung into the hammock as a snug ball. We suspended the hammock (mine, for potential picnics that never came to be because close neighbor trees were hard to find) from a staircase and set up the background in the middle of the corridor.

Who'd have thought that all the rusty autumn colored and deep jeweled pieces of cloth I own would fit together as friends in the same frame?



I love the model, a cute-sized nimble pixie with skin that absorbed all the glowifying baby oil we slapped onto her. She hummed along to the kooks when they played and gave us joyous hugs when she left.

And although I'd barely said a few sentences to samantha in the four years we've been in school, her portfolio (click!) made me want to play along.

All in all very interesting, to do a free-range doodle and think of practical ways to make that doodle come to life.