Part of the Nabis movement in France at the tail end of the 19th century, Felix Vallotton is a painter with an uncanny ability to convey the shocking eclipse of nostalgia and symbolic romanticism.  The gaze of a subjects eyes can cause a temporary paralysis of the soul with a sense of a magnetic, almost gripping fascination.  Dancing nudes with feet barely submerged in light waves at the edge of an amber beach or the artist’s own melancholic portrait makes you feel almost weightless in a somnambulistic age of lost memory. Bravo Vallotton. Bravo!

You can find Love’s pieces at at www.bonadrag.com

“For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, “Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks.” Thus I became a madman. And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief.”

George Harrison – “The Light That Has Lighted The World” (Click Here to Listen)

Based in Reykjavík, Eyglo is a line inspired by bird watching. Eyglo does not have a website, so visit their myspace page for an ’09 lookbook.

“Blow Up” Antonioni (1966)