Tomorrow is the show, and this is the final detail

11/12/2014

These are working fingers. I have found that fingernail polish hides a multitude of studio junk. My fingernails are always dirty or stained enough to look dirty. Plain nude polish hides that. My fingernails have never been painted blue before. Accidentally dyed blue when a glove popped a hole while dyeing indigo.

Today was spent looking at art and trying out make-up and nail polish for tomorrow's opening. I will speak sometime between 5 and 6pm and hang out in costume until 8 ish. Do come if you can.

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WEARING MY AGE

I have received a grant from the Jerome Foundation to work on a project that I have called "Wearing My Age."

The premises that I am working with are that our clothes communicate and they communicate somewhat differently depending on age and gender. You might think of it as "fashion as self-publishing."

The key area I am curious about surrounds the uniforms that women wear in the work place. Indeed, I will be making a uniform body of work, comprised of near identical 3 piece work outfits comprised of: a jacket, a dress, a petticoat.

Each piece represents of body of language/meaning which I will make manifest with digitized machine embroidery typography and design.

The Jacket represents the public self: what you are trying to say, how you wish to be identified, how you want to feel in the market place.

The Dress represents a more personal statement: this is closer to the real me, Within the constraints of the market place I can be creative here, This is the part of me I am generally willing to reveal

The Petticoat represents the secret self: Here lies the true language of self, these are the secrets I do not share, This is what I really think about myself, This is how I feel deep down.

Tomorrow is the show, and this is the final detail

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WEARING MY AGE

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