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Three weeks ago, designer Katie Kime released her Atlanta Toile collection by celebrating with a Trunk Show alongside Whitney Durham Interiors and Half Past Seven Home. Whitney’s home is every artist’s DREAM… vibrant color, bold patterns and interesting combinations of texture everywhere you turn…
TW: Miscarriage
I like for things to fit in boxes and lists, so when a disruptive occurrence blows through like warm summer air and brushes up against multiple areas of my life, I tense up. Where does this “thing” “fit”? Who do I share it with? What container should hold it? The messy thing and the tricky thing about being an artist is that work and personal life are intertwined. So intertwined at times that there isn't really any separating them. My personal life informs my creative work. My creative work is a manifestation of my humanness. My humanness IS my ability and urge to create and make sense of the world around me, which just happens to be what people pay me for. It’s SO tangly.
It’s almost preprogrammed into our brains at a young age what a wedding is supposed to look like. For me, the quintessential “traditional wedding” is the one in Father of the Bride. Except in this scenario, Steve Martin is me aghast at how much it costs just to rent tables and chairs (not to mention the ever-growing guest list your family members keep dipping their hands into).
