I need to start thinking about ideas for my next exhibition piece and I'm not really sure where to start. I guess I really should go back to the theme - "Phoenix - to rise in brilliance".
I have a collection of Bras with wires missing and mangle hooks, I'd like to find a way that I can make use of these. It kinda fits into the Phoenix theme, albeit abstractly. The phoneix dies in a burst of flames and comes back anew with the rising of the sun. The bras have died and I need to find a way to bring them back to life.
One idea that I did have was to transform them from 'under-wear' to 'outer-wear', hence rising in brilliance. This follows with an earlier concept that I had of using recycled materials to demonstrate that energy is not lost instead it recycles.
The question is... how do I do it?...
The phrase "to rise in brilliance" to me conjures up images of bright colours, of something grand and beautiful. However, when I looked 'brilliance' up in the dictionary it also defines it as:
A) "exceptional clarity or agility of intellect or invention".
B) "splendour or magnificence"
So how do I make something mundane, boring and practical into an object of splendour, magnificence, grandeur and invention?
Old - new
Underwear - outerwear
Practical - impractical
Boring - magnificenct
(opposites)
Top - bottom... Shoes/slippers??? Hat/headwear???
Practical for body (wearable) - practical but not worn (domestic)... Bra cups - drinking cups... domesticity (wine glass, coffee mug, tea cup)
Domesticity (def) 1: the quality of being domestic or domesticated: "a royal family living in unpretentious domesticity" 2: domestic activities or life: "making a hobby of domesticity"... Picture of domesticity
Revamped/remade... Use the basic structure but replace fabric, put in new wire (barbed wire?) machine lace (stitched on soluble)
Alternative - remake the bra using different materials, different shape?
Machine and hadn embroider all over, in brighter colours (brilliance), bra enables lift... (rising?)
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