Costuming

quickly made these for my act w/ myles as a spirit medium who raises his husband from the dead since i didn’t have black knee-high gaiters, and used a silver pen to draw quick symbols on them backstage 1 hour before showtime :s

made as a silhouette costume piece for faited’s live ambient set. was definitely channeling amf korsets / fleischauer creations for the top (stiff little vegtan pieces). knocked this up in 2 days also while working on my own aerial/costuming piece, since we were performing in the same show. did tonnnns of tooling and could have done more if i’d had more time. the attachment was sketch af (although ended up being a bit more solid than what it shown here… used pawns and buckle attachments). ...

articulated leather spine: veg-tan, rivets, hand-tooled, hand-painted. molded. i made this piece in 2019 but took this photo later, modeled by faited.

made for the contortionists in serchmaa byamba’s company. designed to not impede movement for moves like headsits and pretzels. they are pinned into the hair for attachment. design is based on sketches by serchmaa, tooling design and patterning by me. detail of tooling (rivets not set) -- mongolian cloud pattern. this gold headpiece was for the soloist, and the silver ones were for the company ...