Soicher Marin Says

I love love love to make inspiration books or mood books, or whatever you want to call them, it is one of my favorite things to do! I love collecting images cutting them out and sitting on my floor with 100′s of images around me collaging them. Just give me a sketchbook, a glue stick, tape, scissors and some music and I am set for a wild Friday night! I know a lot of people who never really got into collecting inspiration or making mood boards, but I find it to be a great jump start when the mind starts stalling on coming up with new ideas.

Two weeks ago I was cleaning out my closet and got to the drawer with all kinds of art stuff in it. I was going through and found a sketchbook I made while I was living in Paris 4 years ago, I titled it “Some Things to Look At”. I remember working on it one afternoon while watching Little House on the Prairie in French (that show was always on). Anyway, I opened it up and ideas started immediately filling my mind, but they were different ideas from what I thought about 4 years ago, which surprised me. I have books made more for fashion inspiration, but I would love to find those and see how I would interpret that same inspiration into the art world today. I can tell this is going to drive me crazy, I need to get to my parents house in Dallas and find these sketchbooks!!! Here are some pics of the books; it tells a story of how I see things, how I put things together and ultimately how my mind works.  -TH