I decided that I needed to look at a completely irrelevant area within my primary research to help gain a "less obvious" source of inspiration towards the topic of "Cosmetic Surgery". I discovered the work of the artist Maren Esdar, (see next post), who produces very "structural" looking shapes to form the female body. It was he specific use of mechanical looking objects in her work which led me to look at using meccano. I like the idea of meccano acting as a strong/hard material against the softness of the human skin. It is interesting to think of a garment being created out of this type of material as it would be an extremely structured piece of clothing which would refrain movement, unlike one of the main functions of clothing. It got me thinking about more structured uniforms or pieces of clothing such as "Body armour" and how these actually form a solid & protective structure around the human figure. - Could this conjure up the idea of a garment preventing any surgery being able to be performed on the skin?
From this, I went on to create a "Meccano inspired" outfit.....perhaps to act as a literal barrier in preventing anyone accessing the skin of the model to operate on?
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