::Salon + Agency::

The CEO of Jimmy Choo in her agency (read: salon) -- a "Tectonic of  Culture".

This piece on Salon and Agency is not a magnus opus...however, it does reflect a sensibility that should be adhered to. We commune on so many levels and for various reasons and causes that it has resonated with me for quite some time. Further deployment of this concept and it's relevance will be shared accordingly and in due time.

+JO.

Art is one of the few places where people activity can converge and where we’re seismographically able to interpolate the question of “Where are we headed? with What does it all mean?” It is the stock to our collective cultural value; It has will and shall forever be a guidepost and conduit to how people relate to technology, advertising and consumption.

The Art of today has allowed me to believe that paint as a medium and gallery as a form (of space) will not fall off into the abyss thereby making room for modernity and all of its <--ahem--> noble accoutrements. In fact it is here to stay in its myriad of forms, just as Trousers with the zipper in the front will never fade or cease and the pen & paper will never die-- Art is of the same ilk; it takes on the features of Manga, Hip-Hop, Graffiti and various movements which claim to be anti-establishment only until they are established. Yet and still, we require a meaning and a place of Salon-- one which allows expression and the First Amendment -- the right to exist and cohabitate. This collective state often requires one to fathom the condition of Agency and what it means for one to be in their own Agency. As such, the question begets a more common quest by the intelligentsia “What does that mean for me?”

Art in all of its various mediums has developed into a cohesive response system that allows one to gravitate towards information and image with equal thrust. Salon and Agency have the same need and the same fixture; they are a place of common thought and a space of continual proliferation--Idea, line and thought consistent in both utility and their ability to create resonances (read: tremors) of tangible culpability. Furthermore, both are equal in merit/worth and surmise our totality. As a result, Agency affords a piece of Creative ample room to transmit thought as well as expression, a Salon warrants the same expectation of the individual (@ room and fixture) it furthers artistic presumption by push and shift.

Advertorially speaking, to be in ones Agency is to be in a space in which one identifies with their counterparts and has free range of idea and the ability to remain communally individual. That is to be part room and part person- a tectonic of culture, commerce and criticism as well as one sharp enough to detect...what’s next?

+JO.

Photo by Terry Richardson circa 2010