KENDALL EMERSON
Designer and Artist
MANIFESTO
Everything comes full circle. The Good and the Evil will be buried next to each other. Not seperated.
Define normal.
Normal people aren’t normal. So, never be normal: Your freakishness is your freedom.
Abnormality is reality.
Always create. Creation leads to progress. Progress may lead to failure, but failure leads to success.
Never create for the sake of creation.
If your work is silent and speaks to no one, then you have failed.
If it repulses, revolts, horrifies, or satisfies, you have succeeded.
It is always better to disturb than to comfort.
Question everything around you. Question yourself.
Make yourself uncomfortable. Steel must be melted before it can be forged.
Listen to the stories of old. Pay attention to who the villain is.
Pain is a teacher, not an enemy. Fear is a tool, not a weapon. Love is a sacrifice, not a sacrament.
Your darkness is your humanity; It is capable of great horror, but even in the darkness life does grow.
Your heart is an altar, your body a temple: Scarred and decorated by time. Do not trust the believers who come to defile it in the name of worship; Who seek to peel up your blackened walls and cover them with gold and artifice. They have no love for your heart, only your walls, as seen in their image.
Clothes are the exoskeleton of the person.
Buy clothes that you will never throw away. Find pieces that are inherently timeless and comfortable that speak to you. Everything you wear is in some way a statement.
Clothes are a second skin; one that will constantly be shed and regrown, always brighter and tougher than the last.
As a skin, your clothes are an armor. They will defend and protect, as much as they will make you vulnerable to the judgements of others.
To horrify is to change.
To be monstrous is to be human.
The first prison created was the human body; the soul bound in flesh and bone.
