edit: SEPTEMBER (2020)

hey there,

“Who is that person who thinks that she is interesting to read about her?” - asks Malcolm Gladwell. Just wanted to share my feelings, I responded in my mind feeling cheeks overflow with heat. So, I will keep it short this time. Let me mention a couple of thoughts that were looping my brain these last months, and then I will zoom into JUNETHINGS updates. Instead of theories on life & fly fishing.

2020 is pure magic. Yes, I did already said it at least ten times. Stale energies seem to clear out. Rough and raw brings fresh ideas. The biggest revelation - this June, I unexpectedly realized that my life only began at 41, and the most important relationship is the one with yourself. Moreover, I noticed losing touch with my twenty-year-old self. I am still that wild easily frightened soul, but finally - sort of a grown-up version of it, not fixated on staying young forever, counting face changes and sorting my newest wrinkles into vertical or horizontal (the latter is more difficult to deal with, if you are wondering why). Smiling more. Flawed, full of incoherent and unrealistic, and fine with it.

The other challenge that I am still wrestling with - trying to switch from living in my head to living in my body. Lean into the chaos and surrender. Feelings are the language of your body. Virginia Woolf put it nicely: “I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.” Moments, feelings, sparks of joy. Conversation between Eros and Logos. So much to explore.

Now, business: our sharpened styling approach borrows from Jungian analysis. In our styling sessions, we explore your “stuff” and habits through self-awareness, transformation, and actualization lense. We dive into the unconscious through the images and patterns that arise in your dreams, fantasies, memories, developmental history, creative expressions, and the events of daily life. It gives you more tools to make sense of your treasures, things, extensions, of all the external symbols of who you think you are. It allows you to recognize yourself in the archetypes that govern you, work through your shadows, making sense of what manages you, making it conscious, and liberating yourself of the energy clusters from the past. This work with clients is so satisfying and brings good emotions when seeing wonderful results every day.

Talk to you soon. x

#feelings

// September 2020

When I was looking at life through a layer of thick glass, 2000. “Thank you and bye,” I said to my 20 years old self this June.

“Light at the end of the tunnel and then the golden stairs-way to the sky during the conscious awake state, in this lifetime,” persuades James Turrell while talking about his own heaven on earth. Roden Crater opens to the public in 2021. // photo: Florian Holzherr

AND here is my soothing list again:

1) The Earth Prelude of Ludovico Einaudi. You feel your body reacting each time he touches the piano.
2) Walking in the morning: one afternoon in June, I figured that I need to start moving. Otherwise, this lockdown will drive me into a turmoil. Even 10 minutes: walking - running - dancing to the music, makes you so much happier and less foggy.
3) Eating ice cream at 3 AM at night.
4) Going all masked-up to Farmer’s market on the weekends. Standing in the line circling 8 times around the block to enter.
5) This Phoenix song while awaiting for Sophia’s new movie.
6) Getting rid of all the uninspiring things in your space.
7) Not arguing and not contradicting for 10 days straight. Breaks your ego, and feels super sweet.
8) Smiling 24/7.
9) Meeting new people during the lockdown.
10) Sitting in fall grass on Bernal Heights, smelling the end of summer while touching soft bents with both of your palms.

+ visual board for September:

Nicolas Ghesquière take on Balenciaga with a tiny flare of Chanel. Flawless for the fall, whenever you are: LA with those velcro sandals, or Vilnius - pouring rain with a huge khaki parka and rubber boots. // photo: Vogue, 2013.

Our Penis / Key ring with pavé of white diamonds. Fancy, feisty and fun.

I’ve read somewhere that using the word “obsessed” is a sign of being neurotic, use “passioned” instead, they say. BUT I am OBSESSED with David Lynch studio indeed. And not liking the word “passionate” that much. Not strong enough. // photo: Michael Barile.

A perfect moment. If something like a “perfect moment” exists. Does it? // still from David Lynch: The Art Life.

Miuccia Prada, 71 years old: “women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.” // photo: Alasdair Mclellan.

Yellowstone though my friend’s daughter's Agna’s eyes > do we just live in a huge artwork?

Minimal, weird, masculine, whatever you say, so perfect. // photo: ONS.

Madness in Belarus, when the European Union told “they [Belorussians] are not Europeans enough to intervene”, meanwhile local women would protested unfair elections. // photo: AP.

Somehow noticed that all the most fascinating guys I met lately are very feminine. And that’s what makes them so attractive. Vulnerable, not hiding their sensitivity. // photo: Broken Record.

Unstoppable Kim. So sexy. // photo: her IG.

Advice from JFK Jr: “it’s a NO now. If you wait, we will see.” About making your own rules.

JUNETHINGS necklaces layered on Kriste last fall at Copenhagen fashion week.

A still from Vanessa Beecroft's The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins 2008 documentary, “in which [Vanessa Beecroft] attempts to adopt two Sudanese orphans and use them as subjects in her work. Wise to theory, Beecroft says her adoption will be ‘not just fetishization of the blacks. It will be a beginning of a relationship with that country.’ The film documents the significant gap between Beecroft’s theory and her actions”, says Logan Hill in Vulture. More about this controversial art project, and “well-off white European artists participating in a very long tradition of fetishizing otherness” here. // photo: Vanessa Beecroft.

Vanessa Beecroft sculptures worshiping women in her Boyle Height studio near downtown Los Angeles.

My dad just sent me this. Obviousely, as always, with his fingers in the picture. Some of the fishies were released because apparently no one wanted them, but the idea is pretty clear. If something makes you happy, do it. Even if it will end up in your compost container.

Wearing our Weimar necklaces is a very soothing experience. In case you are quarantined by yourself and no one touches you on a daily basis.

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MORE Yurga’s edits >
> FEMININE // APR 21
> UNIFORM // FEB 21
> DECEMBER - 2020
> JUNE - 2020
> APRIL - 2020