Trapped

Following a discussion in drawing class relating to art pieces like Andy Warhol's "Triple Elvis", and the "Mona Lisa," my instructor gave an assignment where students were to use multiple images for a piece. Due to a class critique that occurred on that very same day, I had two things on my mind. V for Vendetta (one classmate quoted that movie),  and the treatment of string in drawing, both which shaped my idea for the assignment.

Sticking with the V for Vendetta theme I immediately began searching for propaganda posters that populated the media during WWI and WWII, especially those involved with Russia. My research brought me to  constructivism, a movement that influenced art in Russia in 1919. Among many of the posters that were influenced by constructivism I stumbled upon the Tatlin's Tower, while reading more on Guy Fawkes and the rhyme that he inspired, "Remember, Remember the fifth of November." Both eventually lead to the development of my assignment below.

Trapped- Hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil. My piece was mainly an expression about how I feel with any large body of people who are expected to remain silent in order to protect the well being of the leader.  A bit heavy handed but what can I say, art imitates life in this case. The entire piece was built out of paper, straws, wire, with foam core as the base. The straws were arranged to bare resemblance to the Tatlin's Tower.

The blocks were made from the scans of several Guy Fawkes ink paintings that I did and the rhyme. Upon printing and arranging the faces to create a box, I sewed the eyes, mouth and ears with red or black string.

One ruler to rule them all the queen reigns tight control over the piece.

Halloween Special Costume Galore!

Below are some of the costumes of the people I hung out with this Halloween. I also mention some of the various levels of involvement when it came to the costume.

" This is my body, This is my blood, Happy are they who come to my supper."
A hundred percent involvement with this costume. I mean the guy soldering iron to forge nails to a wires for his head piece!

"Hello little people. What an absolutely splendid day."
One can never go wrong with Miss Piggy, one prom dress, a blonde wig, pig nose and ears and your done.

"Autobots, transform and roll out!"
However when short on time, there are fantastic costumes one can buy online or at your local costume shop.

Halloween Special Part 2

Today's special is the completed version of my project. Finally after two months of hard work and various trips to Micheals, and the local costume shop I had a costume that I was proud to parade at a Halloween Bash this weekend. For those of you curious I made most if not all the costume, from the spider infested flower bouquet to the wig and veil. The wig was the most cumbersome but the wedding dress had it's fair share of woes and victories.


I originally purchased the hand made wedding dress at value village for a total of $20 (not surprisingly this was the cheapest used wedding dress available.) After soaking dress for a good hour in blue die, I began to splatter the bottom with diluted black ink before taking an exacto knife to the hem of dress to give it that "torn I've been dead and buried for a century look." After that it was a matter of sewing on straps. Overall wrecking the wedding dress was the best part of the project.

Every bride needs a pair of good shoes and a lovely flower bouquet

Took this by accident and found it to be creepy so naturally I' thought to share it.

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The fruits of my labor. The entire thing took two hours to put together, (most of it was painting make up on my face, back and arms). It took about the same amount of time to get off. I'm never underestimating cream foundation ever again.

Besties hanging out