Rare Species

Kaleidoscope Magazine

Printed matter, newly discovered, named 'Kaleidoscope'. As always with conglomerations of binded paper adorned with letters and images, I feel the urge to possess. Each issue. An archivist's addiction.
/HORST

German Psycho IV, 2012

or 'I Keep Holding On'

















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Fistfull thinking. Grab, take and hold. Everything we desire becomes brutal reality. All that is needed are spit and endurance. Embracing the tender sides of life. Feeling happiness.
/HORST

German Psycho III, 2012

or 'I Mean Business'

















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Tie Second Hand
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Neatly dressed in a dangerous smile. Every detail is well prepared, every component carefully selected and composed. It is a ritual, a pleasant foretaste of future achievements.
/HORST

German Psycho II, 2012

or 'Your Love Is My Trophy'

















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Shirt Raf Simons
Tie Second Hand
Trousers H&M
Scissors HAY

A lovethreat letter and the act of creation. Reaching out to the beautiful, unfulfilled, untouchable. When Salomé carried the head of St. John, history did not know of her successor.
/HORST

German Psycho, 2012

or 'The Pleasure Is Mine'

















Plastic raincoat Jil Sander
Shirt Raf Simons
Book Redux by Raf Simons
Jacket Topman
Tie Second Hand
Trousers H&M

When longing for and taking care of a garment transcends the mental and becomes a bare physical act, the term 'I would kill for that coat' finally obtains truthful meaning. A self-fulfilling prophecy.
/HORST

Laced Up IV

1. Ann Demeulemeester Fall/Winter 2011
2. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2012
3. Helmut Lang Spring/Summer 2001
4. Versus Fall/Winter 2012

Wafting circumspectly from lace to lacing. Trying to figure out its (sexual) appeal. An attempt of explanation: closure that reveals, skin remains uncovered. It cannot be coincidence lacing is preferably being placed on women's cleavage and men's crotch.
/HORST

The Decorative Anti-Decorative

1. Pablo Picasso Vase deux anses hautes, 1953
2. Ancient pottery, Hohhot, China 500 B.C.
3. Ancient pottery, Japan, Dogu 3000-2000 B.C.

The archaic craft of pottery has recently developed a threatening strength amidst contemporary minimalism. A raw, unfinished and naive quality that makes it a strategically ugly intrudor in polished homes.
/HORST