The Story of Seven Haircuts
Host / Curator: Amber Lopez, diModa Salon
Artist: Adrienne Skye Roberts
Amber Lopez worried that the employee break-room would be too difficult a place for an artist to work and feared that her space would be considered the “short stick” among the sites in the exhibition. She chose Adrienne Skye Roberts to work in her freshly opened hair salon, because she appreciated Adrienne’s “style and humor.” When Adrienne found out that her site would be a hair salon, she was immediately nervous. Most of all, her self-described “fear of hair salons” colored Adrienne’s initial reaction. She actively avoids places that cater to a media-saturated notion of feminine beauty, and for the past three years has exclusively cut her own hair.
However, these shared apprehensions faded after their first meeting. As a young girl away at camp, Amber also helped friends avoid a trip to the barber by giving them haircuts herself. With this shared history of renegade haircuts, Amber offered to teach Adrienne some of what she learned during her formal training and apprenticeship as a stylist. Using this education Adrienne began “The Story of Seven Haircuts.”
The Story of Seven Haircuts: Invitation
I will be offering a traveling home hair salon service in which I come to your private residence (or studio) to cut your hair. You choose the length or style, although keep in mind that I’m in art school, not beauty school!
In coming to your private spaces you have control over the environment of the hair salon, including the music, space, other activities, people present, etc. For example, next Sunday I’ll be going to the East Bay to Mike Goodier’s house for a haircut during the NASCAR race and will be bringing some beers to drink (after all, some fancy hair salon’s offer wine to their costumers!) As someone who cuts their own hair and friends’ hair often and is admittedly terrified of hair salons, I am interested in the very different experience and space of a home haircut and salon.
I’ll also be documenting the conversation and exchange that occurs during the haircut, as I have noticed in my limited experience with salons, that they have the ability to facilitate a unique exchange between two people, perhaps due to the intimate act of washing and grooming someone else.
Please let me know:
1. What time works for you
2. What you’d like done to your hair
3. Where you’d like your haircut to take place
4. Anything specific you would like to take place, be present during the haircut
- Adrienne Skye Roberts