Here are some artistic experiments I have created recently:
Plaster-Filled Black Velvet Dress. I am currently painting black house paint over the plaster spilled spots in the center. I think I might use this one for my Senior Show next semester...
I am going to lay it just like this in the show. It will just be more polished. I love that it looks like a dead mound of flesh in a fancy dress [click to enlarge].
Paper Dresses Galore!!
....office supply paper too.
Waitress checks, "Admit One" tickets, and carbon receipt paper....
I want to give the waitress check dress a large victorian bustle in the back - playing a little bit with the idea of "women in servitude." I've left it alone the last week thought because I was getting frustrated sewing the paper. Frustration while sewing delicate things is no good, it usually leads to tearing, slicing, and dicing. So I put it away for awhile so it'd be safe from The Monster (Me!).
From Dresses to Organic Paper Shapes:
Using ironed wax paper, old book pages, and sketchbook paper....
My printmaking professor just gave me a Bill O'Reilly book to use in these experiments. I must admit it will feel nice to tear the "bold fresh guy" a new one.
I'm really liking the concept of repetition right now. And cutting/sewing. Well, we all know how I feel about sewing already. It's my first love - after being silly of course!
My next piece/experiment involves a fancy dress bottom with a garbage bag stretched across for a top and then vice versa. I want to try to be subtly creepy (as with most of my work) with it.
Here's the sketchbook version [Right Side]:
Here's some tones for your lobes:
I am currently in love with Antony Hegarty from Antony & The Johnsons. As a transgendered person, he is completely androgynous in both voice and appearance. You can't be sure whether you are witnessing a person singing or some angelic event taking place.
Of course, that's not him in the above video, but here he is in a dress rehearsal for Marina Abramovic's newest performance "The Life & Death Of Marina Abramovic" at a festival in Manchester. [I do not own nor did I make this video, You can view that person's youtube channel here. I appreciate them putting the performance online though. I wish I could have been there to see it!]
I am off to make more organic paper objects and dresses. This is why it takes me forever to post things, but at least you will know that I deliver the goods when I do!
