First costume based on fashion / body as threat device and sexual lure for the human body. Animals use their bodies social organs to communicate.Their stance and gesture along with the constrast of colour, texture, contour and size aid in appearing as the intimidating dominant or the sexually attractive. As our social organs have developed to signal these ideas ,so to has fashion and costume come about to aid the body in communicating these very same ideas.
The medium being used is bond paper cut in various size squares and then folded to produce a module, which is then repeated in and inserted into one another to created a continuous series of 'spikes'.
At present I have two body forms I am working on. One is the full female torso and the other the female chest.At first I thought the final look will be a female body suit constructed of the paper modules. It would highlight the areas of the female body that are used as both sexual lures and threat devices. Now i've decided to just continue to play around with the body shape and the effect the various sizes of modules and their placement can do for the body and come up with a variety of options or 'looks'.
i'll keep you posted!
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