Wire frame hat attachment based off of "hanagasa," traditional Okinawan dance hats/headpieces. Wire frame covered with origami rice paper. Exploration in modernizing and referencing traditional artifacts/headpiece as the piece is designed to combine with a baseball cap.
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Reimagine traditional menpo samurai mask as surgical face mask in lantern style: gold wire frame covered with rice paper. Placed sage, lavender, and Japanese quince in mask to hint at plague doctor symbols, when the beaks of their masks would hold herbs, but also a symbol of grief and growth.
Symbolizes a new type of battle which we get through by protecting ourselves, families, and communities and making sacrifices, big and small, for the health of safety of those we love and care about - through which we see new levels of efforts, struggles, and losses, and new hope and appreciation for the people we have. |
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Speculative PPE prototype design I created (out of craft materials and biomaterials) as an example for the BioJam Camp 2020.
Looking to the future to the starting of in-person classes again, safety precautions in school — like PPE — will change how students and teachers interact and communicate. This design imagines a partially clear face mask with a microphone and speaker (with a volume dial) to enable participation and good communication at school (and in other situations). Also, I used sustainable (bio)materials to create it and as part of the speculative design. It imagines a speculative mycelium filtration (represented by pieces of mycelium growth on the front). In my actual prototype, the clear inner section of the mask is agar agar biomaterial (not plastic!) and the dial is chitin bioplastic |
Articulated glove I created from tagboard and used elastic for the joints. I created a prototype out of paper first then used that to cut the tagboard iteration. I first used thin strips of tagboard for the finger loops, but those were too delicate, so I switched to elastic. |
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For Halloween in 2018, I created a UFO hat that lit up. I soldered five gum drop LEDs to a copper tape (I put normal tape on top of the pie tin and then the copper tape on top) parallel circuit. I cut the legs off the alien doll and hot glued it to the hat and added a chair and control panel out of cardboard and beads. I attached the pie tin by sewing it with fishing line to the hat. The entirety of the costume included a shirt that I sewed a green ray on and a stuff animal cow. |
Pheonix2017, Media: Tagboard, elastic, feathers, and spray paint
I created prototypes of the mask in paper and in card stock. I cut out the pieces of the final mask in tagboard and hot glued them together. I got about 6 sets of feathers from Michael's and glued them on two oval shaped cardboard bases. I used elastic to secure the mask and also to secure the wings together and around my shoulders.
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This costume started with my sketches of the mask and cloak. I then created small prototypes of the mask out of paper and then a life sized one out of construction paper. I cut the final design out of tagboard in pieces which I hot-glued together. I prototyped the cloak in scraps of fabric and then created a life sized model in butcher paper. The final piece was sewn with two pieces of fabric, one for the outside (black) and another for the inside (blue). I sewed in wire support in the tail and slots in wings for wooden dowels.
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This costume started with a small prototype out of paper of the mask and then a scale model for the largest final mask. I used a grid for the final mask so I could get it exactly like the paper prototypes. I hot glued the mask pieces together. Then I made a wire harness to suspend the mask above my head. Using fur-like fabric I made a vest with a gold fastening chain. Made a bird scull by carving out a foam ball and cone and adding highlights with sharpie. I hot glued this and plastic branches to a wooden poll for a staff and covered the poll with gold duct tape. This costume was inspired by the Lion King on Broadway costuming.
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