I am trying to get my head and hands back into the studio after a full, almost six weeks of craft shows, workshops and travel. This is how it begins for me: image perusal and drawing.
Clothing (vintage, Elizabethan to haute couture) has been an influence on my work for many years. I appreciate the theatricality, imagination and textures of couture. They are living, life-size sculptures to me. The blue dress by Dior (above) is purposely flipped because this view changes the context. It can now be imagined as a vase, for instance. The crazy pink number (below left) is by John Galliano for Dior and references, “Joan of Arc, Siouxsie Sioux and Botticelli”. Now that’s a great combination. I think all artists’ brains are like high-test blenders. We put in the things we love, press frappé and something amazing is designed and created. This second dress, right (stunning!) based on “origami-style pleats” is also by Galliano for Dior.
The origami dress and “lantern-laden headdress” (left) were “influenced by a trip he took to Japan”. I can take from these the asymmetry, shape, color, texture and curiosity.
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These two dresses are made of balloons. Texture, whimsy, craftsmanship…enough said, I’m off to do my own brain blending.
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