Circle Dance
Stoll Knits and Handlinked Cast Metal / 2017
From collaboration with Bruce Li
Five costumes made in collaboration with Bruce Li for an allegorical dance including a lion, a living elephant, a spirit elephant, a hunter, and a tree. The first costume, the hunter, references an abstracted camouflage. The second and fourth costumes, the two elephants, were knit using a translucent, spun nylon to mimic an elephant’s crepey skin, combining sheer areas with a multi-layer spacer knit to create the curving ribs. In the second outfit, these “ribs” are also stuffed with colorful, hand space-dyed nylons that glow through their translucent casing.
The piece above is a hand-linked breastplate of hand-sculpted and cast “bones,” including set crystals.
