In the interview below, we get to talk to Bianca about her background and how she came to start one of our favorite brands in the shop — Sugar Candy Mountain. What was it like when you first began Sugar Candy Mountain? Well, to be honest I had been...
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VSSEL Pop-Up October 14
Laura Aitken at Stripe Men First Friday Santa Cruz
Laura Aitken Artist Statement Laura is a Santa Cruz based artist working with experimental screen printing processes. She has been focusing on the application of CMYK with screen printing to explore the relationship between the digital preparation of art and the physical act of printing, as well as digital...
Sarah Sanford at Stripe First Friday Santa Cruz
Sarah Sanford Artist Statement Santa Cruz artist Sarah Sanford combines photography, printmaking, drawing and installation to create hidden worlds of biological landscapes and scientific abstractions. Using the contrast between darkness and light, her work transitions between macro- and micro-cosmic worlds. Sanford’s practice focuses on exploring the physical nature of...
Anna Fletcher at Stripe Men First Friday Santa Cruz
Anna Fletcher Artist Statement At four years old, I determined that the illustrated yellow sun with lines stretching outwards wasn’t the way the real sun looked. To figure this out, I attempted to stare at the sun and draw what I saw. After that, all my drawings of suns...