Vulnerability Dress • 9ft tall with extending tentacles on threads • Nuno and Needle felted silk chiffon and merino wool • Hand stitched and beaded details • Fits size S/M • Created as an installation piece but can be adjusted to be more wearable, reach out with questions [email protected] For this piece, I wanted to hit on our vulnerabilities and inner truth, inner dialogue. We all know what the last two years have done for us individually but do we know how our neighbors and community were affected? Do we know how they feel? Is it similar to how I may feel right now? My life as a creator feels raw and bleeding. It's bleeding into every part of me. I'm wearing an all white dress and my insides are literally spilling and exploding out onto the floor and wall. I'm being vulnerable in sharing what's been going on visually and how I truly am. By creating an oversized white felted dress of wool and silk I am working with natural materials in a very intimate way. I am sculpting the fibers into the shape of me. The all red gash at the waist is also where the piece opens up and that inner dialogue is exposed. It’s a beautiful gash as vulnerability can be when we fully allow ourselves the space and the time to step into it. It’s also a public display asking the viewer to witness the energetic work I’ve had to identify, take the shape of, ask questions about, and finally integrate into myself. Creating this work has resulted in a better version of myself with more awareness and more vulnerability.
