ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
OLIVE BOTÈ
Olive is a designer whose work spans fashion, footwear and accessories.
Influenced by a Midwestern upbringing and a unique relationship with nature, their practice draws on the tradition of working with animal materials while allowing each textile’s inherent qualities to guide the design process. Designed withan alternative sensibility, their work is not necessarily androgynous, but distinctly otherly.
In COPOREAL, transparent lambskin and hair-on calfskin preserve traces of humanity within the material, encouraging a sensory experience and reconnection with the body.
This is Olive’s second residency with the Bounty. Their previous collection, Queering Traditions while still an undergraduate can still be seen on our “Artist in Residents” page. This graduating collection will be on view through July.
ADAM WILSON
For weeks before his residency at Studio Kura, Adam traveled Japan gathering antique objects and fabrics to create his recnet collection of found-object sculpture.
SEMANTIC SATIATION explores repetition, consumption, and excess through the textures of antique materials. “Over the last year I have been exploring the concept of semantic satiation through found-object sculptures. I have discovered that when mundane objects(door knobs, beads, car keys, etc.) are removed from their expected context and used in large quantities, the original object becomes unrecognizable. The repetition of something common and often overlooked rips expectations from the viewer, prompting them to investigate the sculpture and attempt to dissect its components.”
ENVIRONMENTAL NARRATIVES
I MARRIED ADVENTURE
I knew long before our first meeting. Beauty beyond compare. Legendary. You were the one to take me away…” or so a story goes.
I met Susan Colby a little over 3yrs ago. It was by chance, and one I carefully navigated. I found myself sitting in the kitchen of a legend. I’d met her business partner, Burt Avedon years early, my curiosity was well beyond the high flyer…the ace…the face. I’d seen Susan’s name on most if not all Willis&Geiger ephemera while organizing the archive at Lands’ End. I knew exactly who was hosting coffee.
March 10, Susan turned 85. I’ve been having coffee with her most Tuesday’s for the past 3yrs. We celebrated over coffee today, WPR Music Edition in support and water color on mini-canvas as a focus. She’s taught me love, grace, humor, forgiveness, and most importantly….
D O G
We talk D O G the most along with revisiting favorite stories or memories. Did you know Susan designed the first Paul Stuart Women’s Collection? She pioneered the brand into womenswear. She’s also the name behind Avedon&Colby. I prefer to think she’s the foundation and why the brand even exists.
I MARRIED ADVENTURE is my ode to Susan Colby who has taught me much and inspires we weekly to just be curious.
ARCHETYPE
“A typical example of something, or the original model of something from which others are copied.” Oxford Languages
Our world is defined by archetypes to create meaning and how they influence our experience of space and the world around us.
Thomas Thiis-Evensen book, Archetypes in Architectural, explores the fundamental elements of architecture and how they relate to human experience. Architecture defines the relationship between inside and outside space and is the creation of an inside within an outside. Floors, walls, and roofs define this relationship and how they contribute to our experience of space, motion, weight and substance.
Frank Lloyd Wright nearly a century before helped welcome the outside in with his prairie school style of architecture. Charactercized by horizontal lines and integration with the landscape, FLW influenced architects worldwide.
Photoshoot:
Photographer: Kai Heverly
Heverly is from Green Bay, WI who is currently studying Consumer Behavior and Marketplace Studies along with completing certificates for Computer Science and Entrepreneurship at UW Madison. His work is inspired by all types of photography such as Japanese high saturation street style portraits to abstract B&W compositions.
Model: Hadley
Schultz is a freelance model, artist, and genetics student at UW-Madison. When not working, she’s studying, posing behind the lens, or making music. Her work is driven by the fascination of life and stories we have to tell.
Model: Gordon Scott
Scott was born in Salinas, CA in 1965. He received his BA from Catholic University of America in Washington DC. The Majority of his career was spent living and working in NYC’s Lower East Side. His creations are heavily influenced by sports, music, social issues, and city life. He has been living in Madison WI since 2013 to be near his daughter.
Location Stylist: Dave Simeon
Simeon is an aspiring creative director and stylist working at the intersection of fashion and cultural storytelling. He is currently studying Computer Science with minors in Textiles & Design and Graphic Design at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
WI SPORTING CLUB
The Northwoods has a way of slowing your senses down. The way light paints in shadows or cuts through morning mist. The smell of earth underfoot in a deep canopy of evergreens or fragrant spruce wafting in waves. Hearing a loon echo across a cold body of water or mostly listening for its partners return call.
Giants of conservation such as Aldo Leopold and John Muir had a way of putting in words to what our senses already know. Or a grandparent reciting passages from these works as they tie flys, polish a camera lens, or carve a new duck call as the glow from the hearth help light the cabin.
ABIQUIU
Native daughter of Wisconsin, Georgia O’Keeffe’s influence stretches from WI to the concrete and asphalt jungle of NYC to the sun bleached adobe facades of New Mexico. Her artistic approach or vantage point, has been lauded and copied by many. In New Mexico, where, in 1940, O’Keeffe bought a home at the Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, she wore denim and painted the landscapes, she loved to wear men’s shirts paired with bluejeans. She honed her style by borrowing from other nations, too. When she travelled to Japan, she returned with kimonos, one of which she is wore, open and loose, in a Paul Strand portrait from 1918. It’s through this vantage point we created our narrative, Abiquiu.
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