{"id":779,"date":"2015-02-23T08:53:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T13:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=779"},"modified":"2015-02-23T10:34:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:34:11","slug":"wearable-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wearable-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearable Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Robin<\/a><\/em>\u201cYou have to go this year: the Oscars 2015 Gala at Cinemapolis<\/a>, great food and film. You just have to go.\u201d My friends convinced me. But what would I wear? I spent the rest of the week rummaging through the house, looking for the right clothes.<\/p>\n

All my life I\u2019ve been looking for my clothes. Even in my dreams I am endlessly looking for a lost sock, a special dress<\/a> I\u2019m sure is somewhere nearby, an outfit I need as in REALLY NEED and will spend a whole dream tearing the house apart for. And much of my waking time, I search for what I will wear or for some extremely significant piece of apparel like my father\u2019s ancient sweatshirt from his army days that I tucked away in a safe place. In the end I usually opt to wear my default black sweater over jeans. But I almost always go through the commotion of the hunt first.<\/p>\n

In trying to solve the mystery of what to wear for the gala, I mourned the half-dozen gowns I\u2019d given away that belonged to my daughter<\/a>. The daughter who, before she died, loved to dress up for parties and proms, always accessorized with sparkling heels. I was hoping to find something of hers, just one little shiny thing to feel fancy in. But all I found was old baby clothes.<\/p>\n

I can do this without going shopping<\/em>, I told myself. And finally, in the bottom of a storage bin shoved high into a remote closet, I found my mother\u2019s mink stole from before I was born. It was elegant and had a warm sheen that was perfect over my black sweater and jeans.<\/p>\n

The assignment in the Digital Photography Studies class this week was to create a self-portrait in a landscape we\u2019d presented earlier in class. Here was something else to stress about. But in the middle of the night, after dreaming about missing a plane because I couldn\u2019t find a black sweater to match my jeans, I decided that for the assignment I would dress myself in a landscape.<\/p>\n

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What is your special piece of clothing and is it in your closet or in your dreams?<\/em><\/p>\n

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