Found dress form, 2018.
My relationship to the dress form began in the fall of 2017. I found her on the curb with a sign taped to her chest: “free”. The buttons down her front and back allowed me to put her on like a jacket. I formed her wires to the shape of my body. When I took her off I was shocked by the intimacy of experiencing the shape and form of my own body: she was me. I used her as an armature to build off of and manipulate, but now she is separate, no longer one to be used.
My relationship to the dress form began in the fall of 2017. I found her on the curb with a sign taped to her chest: “free”. The buttons down her front and back allowed me to put her on like a jacket. I formed her wires to the shape of my body. When I took her off I was shocked by the intimacy of experiencing the shape and form of my own body: she was me. I used her as an armature to build off of and manipulate, but now she is separate, no longer one to be used.
My relationship to the dress form began in the fall of 2017. I found her on the curb with a sign taped to her chest: “free”. The buttons down her front and back allowed me to put her on like a jacket. I formed her wires to the shape of my body. When I took her off I was shocked by the intimacy of experiencing the shape and form of my own body: she was me. I used her as an armature to build off of and manipulate, but now she is separate, no longer one to be used.
