4-What inspires you the most?\u00a0<\/strong> Discovery during the art making process and connections to people with whom I am collaborating.<\/p>\n5-How would you describe Mimi Haddon?\u00a0 <\/strong>A creative spirit who has her hands in many arenas of the world of expression including photography, soft sculpture, costume, dance and video.<\/p>\n6-You started as a photographer, how did the costume design aspect start?\u00a0 <\/strong>Costume crept in gradually into the work.\u00a0 When I first began photography I was looking at the work of Man Ray.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have access to any couture clothing, so I would fashion my own temporary gowns out of lampshades and fabric remnants.\u00a0 For a while I was really into lifestyle photography which now gives me the hives.\u00a0 I found my way to costume through my work with Getty Images.\u00a0 I art directed and dreamed up my own shoots and costume was often the driving force.\u00a0 Sometimes I would rent costumes but often I would hack them with basic DIY methods.<\/p>\n7-You create sculptures using fabric, what is the process in creating these works of art?\u00a0 <\/strong>I\u2019ve long been into crafting and fiber art.\u00a0 My grandmother was a big quilter and sewer and I would do a lot of hand stitching when I visited her during the summer as a child.\u00a0 When I was pregnant with my daughter I made a quilt for her and spent countless hours on it.\u00a0 I kind of set all of that aside while I raised my children and considered myself a \u2018photographer\u2019 for many years.\u00a0 Unfortunately at the time I had this notion of categorizing my artistic interests and didn\u2019t see how I could blend all of my passions.\u00a0 About ten years ago I fell hard for origami and the meditative potential of paper folding.\u00a0 I think this was my entry into fiber sculpture.\u00a0 I read in a book that if one makes 1,000 cranes they are meant to have good luck.\u00a0 Then it stated, \u201cBut who has time to fold 1,000 cranes?\u201d\u00a0 I took this as a challenge, telling myself that time is a major component in the art making process, so let\u2019s see what it is like to play with time as a factor and have a physical quality to represent it.\u00a0 It took a few years for me to land at CSULB working on my MFA in Fiber Art, but that idea carried over.\u00a0 While I was in school I learned a ton of basic hand skills in the \u00a0textile\/craft world.\u00a0 I experimented with materials not intended for craft and really appreciated the potential for creating random pieces that were a collaboration of hand\/body, time and material.\u00a0 What I ended up with were a bunch of physical sketches or soft sculptures that really had no substance on their own.\u00a0 But I had spent so much time on them I couldn\u2019t toss them.\u00a0 So I started to compile them on a dress form and created temporary soft sculptures of imagined archetypes.\u00a0 It was really a magical moment that occurred over a 3-4 month period.\u00a0 I would get up, see my son off to school, set up my dress form in his room and pile and pile and pile my pieces, furniture and always something that belonged to him into these temporary sculptures.\u00a0 Often my cat Stash would silently glide into the room and I would document this ephemeral moment with my camera.\u00a0 Much like Andy Goldworthy does with his incredible pieces in nature.\u00a0 Then by the time my son would get home from school, the entity was gone as if nothing every happened.\u00a0 This work is entitled \u201cTalmasque\u201d or shape-shifter and can be seen on my website: www.mimihaddon.com<\/p>\n8-Looking at the images of these sculptures, photography takes a back seat, does this bother you?\u00a0 <\/strong>Not at all.\u00a0 I\u2019ve come to realize for myself, that photography is a tool like a Xerox <\/em>machine.\u00a0 The content is the most important.\u00a0 In my photography for The Palace Wild<\/em>, I use very basic lighting.\u00a0 The best of course is when I\u2019m mixing the sunlight with the strobe.<\/p>\n9-First thing you think\/do in the morning? Last thing at night?\u00a0 <\/strong>First thing in the morning is I think about all of the places I am teaching that day and what needs to be in order and the last thing at night is Thank you.<\/p>\n10-If you weren\u2019t an artist, what would you have liked to be?\u00a0<\/strong> I could have a small caf\u00e9 that sells home-made soup and bread in Mendocino.<\/p>\n11-What is your definition of success?\u00a0 <\/strong>Having faith in the creative process. Realizing that it is an experience of channeling, therefore a powerful collaboration with something that cannot be seen or defined.<\/p>\n12-What forth-coming projects and or exhibitions do you have scheduled?\u00a0 <\/strong>The Palace Wild will show at Photoville Brooklyn starting September 12th<\/sup>.\u00a0 I am currently an artist in residence at The Camera Obscura until mid November.\u00a0 My goal is to get The Palace Wild<\/em> published as a book and turn it into a musical.<\/p>\n13-If you could have dinner with 3 artists living\/dead who would be at your table?\u00a0 <\/strong>Louise Bourgeois, Hilma af klint, Claud Cahun, Eva Hesse.<\/p>\n14-Name three things you can\u2019t live without in your studio?\u00a0 <\/strong>My Heavy Duty Stapler, Sewing Needle, Shinhan paints.<\/p>\n15-How would someone find you on social media?\u00a0 <\/strong>@mimihaddon and @ghostsinthepalace<\/p>\n16-Anything else you’d like to mention that I didn’t ask?\u00a0 <\/strong>So much.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6118,"template":"","categories":[12],"class_list":["post-4189","artists","type-artists","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sculptor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists\/4189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artists"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists\/4189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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