wing dress update: down the path to the greater irrationality

....or so i say


been soso looong since i've posted on this the last time

well, yu see, the summer needed my tending to it
but this is what i've been doing during those super-hot months

below:
first, i traced the feather outlines drawn on paper
to another set of thicker paper strips cut in shape of the dress



and these are the strips



then pinned them onto a sewing body
and gave them the general "shading"



gotten too hard to work on the body
so i tacked them on wall a la world map

below:
lightly "shaded"



...to heavier shading, but in the realm of
"right" shading meaning
light hits from one end and shadow descends on the other
that sort of thing



then buckled myself up for a ride that may
take me further into....what?

the irrational, the... the.....
state of makin-no-sense-academically
and
trying to go there with
subtlety and style has been
the major time consuming factor

(apart from summer demanding my participation, that is)


and i only know whether i am close to it or not
from the way i feel about it but
that is another matter of subtlety

below:
there or not, i try



just trying to forget this was a wing when it began



i am not entirely sure if i could
paint fading feathers as you see below, using dye
on somewhat flimsy silk



so far, not so bad

still in progress but put together on the body again
just to see each piece in relation to another
and go from there




thanks for viewing