Portrait without a Face, Part 2

For the second part of my Portrait without a face project I wanted to create something which pulls my previous project further, yet completes it.

As I thought about textures and colors, I wanted to create something which explores Alice’s love and contrast of colors and patterns. When it came to the material, I wanted to choose a base which could complete an outfit in relation to the previously made Mondrian fur coat.

As we went to a thrift store, we found a fur hat which alice was very much fond of and I felt as if it was a great base for my projects. For this part I wanted to focus more on Alice’s face rather than her coat, her exaggerated use of glitter on a daily basis as the addition to her clothes. While her interests in arts and clothing seemed to be broad, her interest in glitter reflected her attention to detail, such as in her Japanese kimonos.

As I cares to take this further, I thought about the combination of childish shapes and glitter to compliment Alice’s use of makeup. When I found small childish-shaped bees in a thrift shop, I wanted to combine them with the fur texture and introduce a glitter-like shape to reflect her importance on detail.

As I moved forward with my project, I felt as if someone was missing to really connect the hat to the coat and her love for textures so I wanted to adopt the Mondrian-primary-color theme in relation to her headwear. As the for of the hat was more delicate and fragile I took the conscious decision not to spray paint it like the coat but rather add a piece of ribbon. This puts emphasis on he delicacy and detail. I painted to ribbons in primary colors resembling those of the coat and Mondrian to create a completed work.

The hat was made to have the ability of being able to be flipped over to introduce the element of spontaneity, youth and recklessness towards traditional ways of clothing.

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