I'm working on a solo exhibit for
Fitchburg State College's Hammond Gallery (Massachusetts) in September called "What to wear in the Naked City." The show is a psychogeographic exploration that stitches together connections between the psyche and environments – both the body's immediate environment (clothing) and the larger environments of cities. I'm interested in how places imprint themselves on the mind and how this imprint affects (easy or encumbered) movement through those places.
Pieces for the show include clothing built of found objects from 3 places I've lived recently: Los Angeles, CA; Knoxville, TN and Fitchburg, MA.
The
Bird's Nest Dress (below) is constructed from shoestrings and other scraps found in Knoxville, TN. Here's what I've built thus far:
For more about the
Bird's Nest Dress, click on the label "Bird's Nest Dress" below.
3 comments:
All made from scraps found in Knoxville? I like that.
Pretty much all from Knoxville... A few scraps traveled with me from L.A. The wool yarns were donated by an out-of-state aunt while I was living in Knoxville, but the hundreds of shoe strings were all Knoxville... one of those great thrift store finds.
Very cool!
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