The Best Kept Secret

A few pictures from the final iteration of the ‘in-situ representation of a gallery’ by The Lavender Hinge within The Lavender Hinge Showroom @ The Belesario. This delightful rotating exhibition as love letter was affectionately conserved, protracted, and fitted over a two-year period. It appeared to be the best-kept cultural secret in Buffalo, NY. It was a resonant jewel of a collection from our alliance, and I was blessed and honored to have had the opportunity to work with the most talented, provocative and beautiful Swan. I will love & miss her always. The torch carried burns ever so brightly.–The Horse

The Lavender Hinge Showroom however, lives on.............

The next installation will be by artist Eric Magnuson, co-founder of The Lavender Hinge.

Total Solar Eclipse, New Moon, Super Moon - Time to Plant New Seeds.......

Lisa Z. Morgan aka The Swan is leaving The Lavender Hinge, co-founded with Eric Magnuson aka The Horse, to focus on other artistic endeavors. The Total Solar Eclipse, New Moon, Super Moon on March the 8th presents a time of new beginnings and the opportunity to plant new seeds.

A Hinge is a mechanical device created with the purpose of 'the bringing together of two solid objects.' It is symmetrical, perfectly balanced and equal. The form itself almost appears as a man-made butterfly. To attempt to add alternative components or replace the fundamentals takes away from its stability and the beauty found in totality. To Hinge, as a verb, is a seamless and harmonious motion and it is through the act of Hinging, that wonderful and striking works have been created while remarkable and challenging experiences have been lived. Love, life and work continuously evolve and are forever changed.

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” Jung

WANTED by The Lavender Hinge, 2012

Undressed : A Brief History of Underwear

Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear will open at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London on the 13th April. "Rosette Cheeks (exploded and capped)" by STRUMPET & PINK is included in both the exhibition and the accompanying catalogue.

"Rosette Cheeks (exploded and capped)" by STRUMPET & PINK. 100% pure silk chiffon. Image courtesy of Victoria & Albert Museum, London

16 April 2016 – 12 March 2017. This exhibition will address the practicalities of underwear and its role in the fashionable wardrobe whilst highlighting its sensual, sexual appeal. The exhibition will explore dress reformers and designers who argued for the beauty of the natural body, as well as entrepreneurs, inventors and innovators who have played a critical role in the development of increasingly more effective and comfortable underwear.

Full Moon on 22nd

The Full Moon on 22nd "brings illumination and heralds a sweet surrender to what is, the perfection in the imperfection. A shift in perception........"

More thoughts on this wonderful full-ness can be found here. 

¡ viva la bisagra !

“Will you be my Valentine?” asked The Horse to The Swan, “Will you be mine?”  “Of course I will,”  replied The Swan, “Until the end of time.” 

Theory & Praxis

TLH (forward), 2016

Rumor has it

The Swan has a Birthday. The Horse wishes her many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many more.

The Lavender Hinge and Desire

The Lavender Hinge looks beautiful amidst the pages of DESIRE by The Laboratory Arts Collective. The unpicked thread speaks sympathetically to "The Seduction of St Thomas (after Caravaggio)."

To Hinge (for 2016)

Top image: To Hinge (for 2016), 2015

Bottom image: Richard Serra's Verb List, 1967, 68

In at No.11 on the 11th.......

A surprising and unexpected advertisement for The Lavender Hinge Showroom comes by way of a Holiday shopping article from The Buffalo News. On route and in at No.11 is The Showroom (spelled Lavandar rather than Lavender).

Time to pick up those Holiday gifts...............

Pushing the Pink - Hot off the Press

The Swan has written and curated an essay entitled Pushing the Pink or The Impossibility of Pink-ness for the latest magazine developed by The Laboratory Arts Collective. DESIRE is the theme of this edition and the essay is tucked in-between and stitched closed. Therefore, in order to enter into pink-ness one has to cut, tear, rip or carefully unpick the shocking pink thread. 

DESIRE - hot off the press.

The Future Now (11:11)

The Future Now (11:11), 2015

The Faeries of Scotland

The Faeries of Scotland

Rest In Beauty Mel - 3rd October 2015

STRUMPET & PINK was founded in January 2002 by artists Melanie Probert and Lisa Z Morgan; a capricious idea that began life on the back of a tube ticket........

Melanie Probert (Strumpet)

So the story began and so it continued with laughter, tears, beauty, frustrations and life's blessings and complications for over decade. But the journey, at least this stage here on earth, has now come to an end as the rare woman that was Melanie Probert, the Strumpet in the equation, died on 3rd October 2015. 

It is with sadness and disbelief that these words are written. Words, which cannot begin to convey the loss of such a unique and gifted woman. My thoughts go to her wonderful husband with whom she found the happiness and love that she both needed and deserved and to her beautiful daughter with gorgeous new life in her arms.

My Dear Mel, may your journey be filled with all of the wild flowers, beauty and wonder that you sought and please continue with your custom of wearing inappropriate garments in inappropriate places. And most importantly smile that expansive smile and laugh your very particularly dirty laugh all of the way.

Farewell Lovely,
Lisa (Pink) xxx

Something Wonderful is Coming Soon

DESIRE by The Laboratory Arts Collective will finally be launched on 24th October and works by The Hinge are included in the essay "Pushing the Pink." 

DESIRE by The Laboratory Arts Collective

Lavender Trucking

Royal Purple Enters the Lavender and Begins to Open the White

Keep on (The) Trucking (Blanket Series)..........

Black on Shadow Enters the Rouge.

More from The Trucking Blanket Series.........

Lavender Lilac in Slate Touching Sand/s.

Pushing the Pink

Several works by The Hinge will be included in the essay "Pushing the Pink," which was written (by a member of The Hinge) for The Laboratory Arts Collective's next magazine. The theme for this edition is DESIRE and will be published this month.

Lavender Hole (for Kiton), 2013,

Assisted readymade: cashmere, leather, cotton, thread

38 x 24 x 5 inches

The Seduction of Saint Thomas (After Caravaggio), 2012

Linen, velvet, cotton, thread

42 x 56 inches

Floral Hole, 2012 & Immaculate (after Marlene Dumas), 2015

Pictured on the left is: Floral Hole, 2012 on view at The Lavender Hinge Showroom @ The Belesario, Buffalo, New York
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Pictured on the right is: Immaculate (after Marlene Dumas), 2015 on view at Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York in the 41st Members Exhibition  July 17 to August 28