Membranes of childhood memories

Dante Gabriel Rossettis prerafaelite painting “Lady Lillth” which is the epitome of anarchical Victorian beauty meets Arcimboldos “Four-Seasons” masterpiece of surrealism Époques that were so different yet aligned in their blood The mélange made me remember my childhood days where the world around me started to bore me so much I decided to quit reality and flee into my imagination In my own world everything was pretty much alive And all the ordinary things that weren’t destined to be meaningful in reality became the substance of my fantasy SoI created what I desired out of the most regular items that surrounded me A fruit basket turned into a hat A tissue box into a closet for my Barbies Old plastic bags from the supermarket into dresses I glued together peeling apart ordinary items of everyday life layer by layer membrane by membrane learning to give things a new purpose without destroying their marrow without taking away their DNA by placing their components in an uncommon way maybe even in a way they weren’t thought to be This project is based on the act of working with what you have and challenging your creativity and fantasy to its limit by studying what is not meant to be studied and by deconstructing what is not meant to be pulled apart in the first place The outfit consists of ordinary items that found on the flea market: a lamp shade made wearable by metal welding, old curtains dyed with natural cooking means and manipulated, dried flowers and old pearl necklaces