#thingsthatperformprocess

@dimensionsspring2025mw

Really interesting material to work with, especially with the subject matter and goal, which had to evolve as I evolved with the material.

The prompt was to use several things that are considered trash to create something that I could wear. I have experience making full body costumes from previous halloweens. I am also a bit of a hoarder, and there is a lot of "trash" in my room that I am too found of to get rid of it. I used all of these things for the costume, from old fabric to old yellowing foam, I carved it to make a head of a teddy bear and used old magazines, crumbled and ripped pages to then glue them to create something resembling fur.

These are the process shots taken for the Things That Perform assignment. For this project, I had the idea of creating a full-body suit made of trash bags, which would then be covered entirely in newspapers. There are many challenges that come with putting this suit together, as I did most of this all on my own. The first two photos are from the very earliest phases of the assignment, where I believed that the assignment would be best if done simpler without any newspapers. In hindsight, that was a pretty bad idea. The last three photos are the process shots for the second phase, where I attach newspaper scraps to virtually every corner of the suit.