Artwork #1 | Adornment (Art Installation)

 Last year during my course we given a one week brief entitled 'Adornment'. This was madness because during the brief I was performing a week long performance.

I was designing my installations in my dressing room every night, though I rather enjoyed it because I gave me something to do during whilst waiting for cast members.

Adornment refers to decoration on body such as over exaggerating a feature. It doesn't have to be too extreme but enough to be abnormal.

I chose to adorn the classic character Snow White.
We all know how the story goes, like all Princesses we expect to have a happy ending.

 

For art installation/costume I wanted to interpret the over exaggerated side of death but with nature.

The skin colored tights represent skin, stretched apart to form the tree trunk.

This was carefully stitched together to create an oval pattern.

As for the green miss-cut and shapes to form the corset- to obviously represent to leaves of the tree.

  

The trail of leaves represents poison ivy, the time Snow White would have been dead with nature wrapping itself around her body.

I'm trying to show beauty of death using nature, roughly this took around six hours to make.

It took thirty minutes to take it down, pin by pin.

I wish I had a little more time so the entire thing could have been sewn into or on a garment.

Costume design and making is one of my favorite things, I was introduced to it when I was 12 years old by my Performing Art company - some costumes we're given a new lease of life for each production, sometimes made out of curtains. My director inspired me to get into acting and also the back stage side to it too.



Cheerio for now, Lucy x