Plastic Seconds 'Shamaness' shoot illustrated for Cent Magazine

I recently collaborated with the lovely photographer Nyla Sammons and make-up artist Babs Forman to create an experimental fashion shoot to which I gave the title 'Shamaness'. I have been meaning for sometime now to start exploring more the territory of styling and photography and there will be more work of this nature to show in the near future :-) I styled this shoot with Plastic Seconds jewellery and one-off props and backgrounds I created. I focused on the theme of an imaginary female Shamaness wanting to emphasise the need for the awakening of the feminine in our world. Having read quite a bit on Shamanism recently, I am feeling excited about the ways in which this ancient wisdom can be used in our contemporary lives to enrich them and to improve our relationship with ourselves and our planet. I was subsequently asked by Cent Magazine to create illustrations with my illustrating alter ego Slowly The Eggs to accompany this shoot - the result followed the magazine's JUXTAPOSED theme for November and you can see it published here!

'Shamaness'
Illustrated by Slowly The Eggs
Photography: Nyla Sammons Photography
Styling/Set Design/Props: Maria Papadimitriou designer of Plastic Seconds
Jewellery: Plastic Seconds
Make Up: Babs Forman Hair & Make Up Artist
Model: Hannah Pressman

2011 Leftovers 8: Plastic Seconds play with the Beauty School Drop Outs and Laura Peters Photography

Still being extremely slow at blogging despite my new year's resolution to improve in this area....It WILL happen! :-) So I have been meaning to post a few more things from the last few months... Here are some photos Laura Peters took duirng a day of sillyness-playfullness-experimantation. The Beauty School Drop Outs did the make up and used lots of Plastic Seconds pieces to style these teenage girls, who were having QUITE a bit of fun. The most fun thing for me was making the PROP SUSHI HAT, seen here, to accompany my Sushi Necklace. I LOVE hats and have been making a lot of illustrations/collages of ladies with food hats as Slowly The Eggs, but this is the first time I made a 3D one! Making more weird props like this is definitely on my agenta. We went to have a meal in a Chinese restaurant during a very busy time in order to take the noodles and sushi hat images..........but I think the Sushi hat was definitely a hit :-)