Wearable Art

Having always sewn and altered my own clothing, I dived into the artistic aspects of wearable items with fairy wings (above, right), as a personal project. I created an almost seamless attachment between the wearer and structure by hand bending each wire to create the wing-like form of fairy wings, and creating a low v dip, still ensuring stability.

As I learn more about designers like Racso Jugarap and the integration of wire designs and stability into wearable art, my own pieces have become more complex in nature. The combination of industrial wire, plaster, and clay creates contrast within the piece, allowing the small details of art to shine. This year I have worked on a wire corset, as seen above. I utilized the negative space in the back of the corset, as well as adding multiple seemingly starving female figurines in one of the back panels. I worked alongside another artist, who produced these figurines for me, as I worked with thin wire on the front breast. Ideally I hope this piece to be seen as a commentary on femininity and women’s larger roles within society, with the wildly different mediums portraying the ways women are expected to behave, and the pressure of the corset representing how constrictive femininity is once it has been achieved.