incoming! : parasites

in the far corner, atop a round table which is awkwardly wearing a dress with its hoop skirt exposed, sits an over-sized ornament/ fruit/ alien pod form. it is upholstered in shiny cream satin with ribbon trim and small pearl accents. the quadrants could lace together, but are fixed in a compromised, splayed position as if in an offering.

 

these were the materials available to me and not because i was meaning to make any conceptual leaps about genetically-linked dress-up-in-silly-costumes time, it just so happens that the table is the one piece of furniture i acquired from my maternal grandmother's home on cape cod after she died (my grandfather made it?- it's really pretty lovely..lots of small inlaid pieces of wood in a circular pattern ..but that's beside the point), the hoop skirt was given to me by my aunt (my mother's older sister), the blue dress was my mother's homecoming dress (which she is wearing in one of 2 pictures i have of my parents together), and the form that sits on top of it all is lined with my prom dress (olive drab green sequins...like M*A*S*H meets absolutely fabulous)

 (hey! it's night again!)

the inside is lined with a series of membrane pockets (made from sewn off-white sheer stockings), some holding cantaloupe colored satin seeds which are embroidered in a generic "asian" cherry blossom-type motif (with red beads). the very center is a grapefruit sized recess lined with dark fur; from the same beast that lay on the floor in the top shot..but in this case, mussed-up with mussy stuff. out of this cavity comes some sort of worm- lined with rhinestones (prom dress collar).

thanks to angela zamarelli for posting a really nice l'il review on her blog. check out her stuff too, she's flippin awesome:http://little-lungs.blogspot.com/