So this time I chose to hang the dresses off the flag by their shoulders, like they were hanging from a clothes line.
it’s rare for me to use brand new untarnished papers, so I really do enjoy the empty backs of the pages. The dress form is the same one I’ve been using on the dresses series for maybe 2 months now – it took a hundred years to “draw” it from scratch on Cricut, but now I’ve used it in different sizes that it was well worth the investment.
This is the dresses, the negative space from the vintage paris postcards I used you’ll find in Robes Parisiennes (using all of the beast, right?).
Measurements are about 23cm x 11cm (i could measure it exactly, but why? I’m nowhere near the piece right now, i’m sitting in my car while the cleaner does my house!!).
Sometimes i wonder if this endless documentation doesn’t kill my art making, but then I love returning to discover what i thought i’d do differently and what I learnt, so here’s what I learnt:
- use new materials if i have them, especially the new materials which have been sitting in a box waiting for me for 10 years or more!
- invest the time into making a cricut pattern that’s timeless (i don’t always know it will be timeless, but if i take the time maybe it becomes so?)
- pieces like this build over time – who knew when i started the original dress series that I’ll still be working with it in some form months later?
