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Thursday, 16 December 2010
rAveN CoStUme pROjecT
The poster I was working on a few posts ago was for the festival I later performed in. The character was that of a ravenoid figure, something I wanted to make quite feral and maneuverable for creepy capacity. I aimed for something between both the bird and human form, and to be quite morbid/skeletal, as the character reflected aspects of death quite strongly in the festival. I had taken a wire outline of a pauldron I used for a previous character costume, incorporating it as a distinctly human trinket to offset the otherwise very animalistic appearance. The headdress and breastbone were to distort the human form and bring out the chest as much as possible; unfortunately no good clear photos have turned up of the details on the chest, but here is a slip of the general idea with the boney chest piece.
The finished piece, complete with masses of scraggy muslin fabrics and bindings looked something like this.
Great stuff. If yours is still intact, maybe we should get together some time and take pictures of each other's Valravn costumes... I was never quite satisfied with the ones of me from the night either.
ReplyDelete(I blogged about mine at http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/valravn )