#wearable sculpture
Mask prototypes for the Shadow Tender project, directed by Natalya Kolosowsky. Shadow Tender looks at the psychological mechanisms of demonization at the root of extreme nationalistic policy and personal fears through the medium of theater, wearable sculpture, and movement.
Our masks and costumes seek to externalize our inner anxieties, doubts, and struggles–we can move in them, face them when worn by another, and hopefully, find healthy ways to reintegrate with them, free of both wallowing or blind rejection.
Please visit www.shadowtender.com to learn more.
Leatherwork by Lyraphic Leather. Photography by Shane Phillips
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Spent most of last Monday adding and working on this wearable sculpture to lengthen and fill out certain areas. This piece will be going to a shoot next week where I’ll be collaborating with others to transform the piece when worn on the human form. With help from other contacts sourced from Instagram I am looking forward to working with them and the possible new viewpoints on this.
The sculpture tackles feelings emerged from experiencing mental illness and how there are layers of emotion that can bubble from below up to the surface. Other themes within the piece are ‘restriction’, 'weight’ and the colours are derived from responses from questionnaires I sent out last year which asked participants to visualise their illness in physical form.
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No-one Loves Me".
This piece was made while thinking about creating forms over the body that convey the affects of mental illness on the mind and body that can’t be seen. The feelings of ‘constriction’, sense of ‘colours’ and 'forms’ inspired by the brain. Plus cage like shapes to signify the emotive cell we can retreat to but also get trapped in when we feel isolated.
Images and embroidered text are also inspired by the drawings and text by participants responses from a questionnaire conducted in 2017 by myself on the theme of participants discussing their own experiences of living with a mental illness.
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