Morales Exhibit a Colorful Dream

If you are attending the Morales exhibit at the Schloss Museum this month and are expecting a fashion show on canvas, prepare to have your expectations wildly exceeded. Already solidly entrenched as one of the world's foremost fashion designers and merchandisers, this show will be a large step toward establishing Morales' credentials as a talented graphic artist as well.

Entitled "The Mysterious Garden", the illustrations, particularly those in deep blue, seem to draw the onlooker into a colorful dream. The simplicity of the illustrations suggests the sort of childlike wonder that somnambulance confers, a place where the mysterious can be ordinary and almost anything possible. To be sure the show does not lack for images of stylishly garbed women but even these suggest exotic and distant locales, the Orient and even Shangrila. If you have forgotten how to dream, these illustrations will get you started again.

It is a small exhibit, but don't miss it. It will be the most engaging twenty minutes of your day.