naomi alessandra

I awoke on Thursday morning to a glorious delirium brought on by the knowledge that my sister was in labor and that I would soon be an auntie.  Spring was in the air, new life was spilling forth, and I was ready to be there to witness the birth of my new little niece or nephew.

As I prepared my bags for departure and closed up my laptop for a few days away from home, I caught the news that Lee McQueen of Alexander McQueen was dead.  I was shocked, in a state of disbelief.  How could this be? » Read the rest of this entry «

Illustration for Dazed Digital’s competition ‘Decade Drawn Out,’ in which illustrators were asked to recreate one of the covers from the past 10 years of Dazed & Confused Magazine in their own style.  Original cover image featured Maggie Rizer & other models, sparkly but spent, in a sort of bedraggled love puddle.  I wanted to convey, through color and style, the sweet lightness of that moment when debaucherous revelry comes full circle, back home again to angelic innocence.