Let’s Make It Work - 28 // 05 / 2024

Stay Strong. 

I Love You.

Let Us Make A Little Money.

Let’s Go.

My Next Piece’s Aura ~’’• 👰🏻‍♀️💐🪽 …

I am so excited to have finally completed my largest installation to date. It is very tempting for me to add more but I genuinely think there is nothing more to add. I am not trying to render myself penniless after all.

In all earnestness, it would be hard for me to live without craft. I think I am going to decorate some printed self-portraits with a floral frame.

This video from China provided as a main inspiration for my work. I desired to make something truly monumental. 

I have been speaking of my two large-scale paper ills for eons and eons. Due to their scale, I am finding it hard to find a place where I can photograph them. 

Anyways, I have veered off topic.

This dress was certified as a New Guinness World Record ( well, in 2013 give or take ). This marital frock was designed by the outstanding Cai Meiyue. At a whopping 2,599 metres , I no can only imagine how beautiful the bride felt - I know I feel rather gorgeous in long dresses, personally speaking.

Since I was young girl, I was fascinated by the prospect of a wedding. I am aromatic and asexual in fact, so I could never participate in that of matrimony, at least in the traditional sense. That being said, the theatricality and ceremony of weddings dually eludes and excites me. 

I am going to link the video that I got these GIFS from below. I wonder what compels people to make large-scale works of art. This is something I could use as a journal exercise, I should do my best to outline the intentions for my work.

In the midst of creating these large-scale installations, I am remembering to practice gratitude and exercise all of my creative faculties to manifest beauty in to the world. I hope to make myself and others feel happy through the act of creation.

 

In both of my large-scale paper dolls, I have added rose petals and dozens of fake flowers onto the bodies of my self-portrait. Flowers hold a special place in my heart - they are these universal symbols of beauty, grace and the natural world. Traditionally, flowers have been a motif for femininity, but I think everyone can like flowers.

One of my paper dolls in response to viewing this video has generated that of a long train herself. That being said, I do not have the funds to create a train which is 2,599 metres long. Mine is about 50 metres long in totality, which is still extremely lengthy. My train is made up of multiple colours, instead of the traditional marital white. Pink, red, yellow, blue and purple create the train. 

Indeed, you may think my obsession with wedding dresses and gargantuan, cupcake-style, princess-y gowns is juvenile or tacky. Honestly ? You might be right. However, I advocate for everyone to find a subject in this world they are passionate about and what to act upon.

For me, this is craft. I am in love with making artworks. 

I cannot wait to firstly find a place to photograph my large artworks, and I cannot wait to show them to the world. What an exciting prospect !

Here is where you can find the original video of this humongous wedding dress. If you tap onto this body of this text, you shall be directed to the video of Cai Meiyue’s ginormous creation. 

Earnest. Crafty. Maximalist. Colourful.

Art keeps me going.