Inspiring me this week, Porcelain and the bad boy of ballet Sergei Polunin

Porcelain. It seems my inspiration this week echoes the pureness of the landscape around me, everything blanketed in snow, clean, blinding, beautiful. First up, this video of Sergei Polunin's improvised dance to "Take Me To Church" by Hozier (directed by David LaChapelle) just blew me away, it is incredibly beautiful - wow!

I also loved the beautiful floral detailing on the Alexander McQueen SS15 collection,  the collection borrowed from the attire of geishas and samurai warriors, obviously reinvented in a typical McQueen way to allow traditions and history to mix and combine with sensual, erotic and disturbing moods pointing towards the horror in beauty/beauty in horror dichotomy.

The McQueen team also drew on inspiration from Victorian Floral Still Life for the Alexander McQueen Pre-SS15 Menswear

I read so much about Weiwei's Alcatraz exhibition, there was so much beauty in this exhibition but I found these images of his 'blossom' series the most moving.

Marc Quinn Etymology of Desire, 2010. Alexander McQueen SS15 show

Ai Weiwei's used porcelain in his "Blossom" pieces which he displayed in the hospital ward of Golden Gate National Recreation Area's Alcatraz Island. Weiwei placed these beautiful and delicate porcelain blossoms in the sinks, toilet and bathtubs inside each cell.

“The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.” —