My Life: How Enlightening
This piece can be lit from the inside for a completely different effect. The negatives will come alive in all their ancient amber colored glory. Because of the zipper and base garment, it can also be worn as an actual dress on the runway.
This was created as a challenge to myself. I used a window curtain sheer as the base and hand stitched the negatives to it for support and with a design in mind. The cross pieces help to balance the natural pull of the negatives to flatten out and look odd. To use even more negatives, the fringe pieces were added which then created a 1920 flapper feel that I find fun. Remnant sheers from my inventory became sleeves echoing the shape of slides, yet another film reference. The headpiece can be lit as well with tiny faerie lights.
I did hold back some negatives when I saw a precious image from my early days of motherhood. Now I have a way to transfer them to digital, a few weeks too late for those which ended up as part of the garment.
This was created as a challenge to myself. I used a window curtain sheer as the base and hand stitched the negatives to it for support and with a design in mind. The cross pieces help to balance the natural pull of the negatives to flatten out and look odd. To use even more negatives, the fringe pieces were added which then created a 1920 flapper feel that I find fun. Remnant sheers from my inventory became sleeves echoing the shape of slides, yet another film reference. The headpiece can be lit as well with tiny faerie lights.
I did hold back some negatives when I saw a precious image from my early days of motherhood. Now I have a way to transfer them to digital, a few weeks too late for those which ended up as part of the garment.