Making of a silk dress with a wing painted on it.
With dye in color blue black.
Realistic feathers placed unrealistically.
A long story told as is.
By artist/escapist Yuko Nagai, currently Miss Sore Thumb in a rural Japanese town
who rambles about random stuff as well.
Read on.
Thank you.

February 27, 2009

wing dress update: one more push til i cross that line

update for my wing dress project
ongoing since may '07


all the dyed (with acid-type dyes) panels are now
put together roughly

as you see on below 3 photos...





now i am working on
pushing up the scale of "totalness"
-giving it a one last big push so that
the whole thing will cross the final line and
really come together

using pigment-type fabric paint as a
touch-up agent

you may or may not agree but
there still is
scattered, busy look to the thing
my task now is to make it come together somehow by
darkenning some, here there but not everywhere

what's important to me now is to

get in the groove fairly consistently
don't touch anything until i know exactly how
and
see, feel, work with 6th sense wide awake so
i'd know when's time to stop

sometimes i wonder if
i do all this just to be in the said groove...


so let's see how i do, if i could
pull this one off alright

thanks for your visit!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hello yuko

... i don't know, how your feathers look like in reality, but on your photos, they seem to be stunningly beautiful and absolutly prefect - so real with all this subtle details!
and absolutly plastically - we saw you painting it on a flat fabric and know we see them in a real 3d view.
how much more must this overwhelm the one who has the chance to see it live!
i'm a bit envious of your uranian 1/2-sister about having the possibility to touch it and even wear it ...

wish you the calmness for the final completion, eve

pomonaqueen said...

hi eve,
good to have you back and thank you always for your generous words and continued support. it means a lot to me ;^J
yuko