Excerpt: Simon Miller - Resort 2025

 

"Like Jasmin Larian Hekmat's brand, Cult Gaia.  I have a soft spot for this late 1970s homage to the divinely hedonistic 70s, through to the 1980s where the counter cultures went from their free love peace loving hippies, to the sexual liberated 70s and 80s, and its anti-nuke war rallies.  Ending literally overnight in the 1990s, when the Baby Boomers children, Generation X, ended up as one of the, without being too hard, stagnated and in a lot of ways traditionalist generations to date, despite dashes of rebellious simulacrum of those last Three decades.  It was seen more as a novelty, than a statement of change.  Now 24 years into the 2000s, not much has changed, this new formed conservatism has very much dug itself in, without a cohesive or interesting counter culture appearing on the horizon.  So, are we allowed to romanticize?

Why not?  As long as it is done without invoking the restless spirits of those boulevards of broken dreams, to which Chelsea Hansford of Simon Miller portrays in her respectful homage, via a devotion to her beloved Los Angeles 1970s template..."

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(A.Glass 2024)

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/11/simon-miller-resort-2025.html