SUGAR

I am so intrigued by this work. Noelle Allen had created a temporal sculpture, titled Husk, which is a cloud of air spun sugar. Over the course of a few days, the structure deteriorates and the sugar crystalizes as air escapes from the glass vitrine. During the process, the sculpture transforms from a light and beautiful puff of fairy floss, to represent some kind of carcuss and then eventually nothing but granules of sugar. I think that's what I like about this work - the fact that in the end, all that's left is a mere indication of the orignial sculpture and also the individual stages throughout the process. Each formation can be interpreted in a different way, evoking seperate emotions.






I came across these photographs on a blog today. The model is wearing the literal kind of shadow. Dressed in projected imagery, I guess in terms of my own project, I could say that she is wearing a shadow - or a mysterious/suggested representation of the orignial source. (Which would be the image?) She's no longer naked. Is she wearing her own skin?





This is by Jun Takahashi, 2000:



The caption goes as follows:

Fashion in the twentieth century moved in
the direction of taking off clothes. At the
end of the century clothes became as simple
as possible, and instead of wearing clothes, it
became fashionable to "wear" the body itself.
Cosmetic make-up, piercing and tattoos, all
of which are direct forms of decorating the
body and have existed since primitive times,
became the cutting-edge of fashion at the
turn ofthe century. Takahashi painted body
tattoos in places where the skin was not covered
by the dress. Clothes had turned into
skin, and the border between the skin and
clothes was becoming ambiguous.