adornment

[egypturnash]

Remember Shrek? Particularly, remember the dragon in it? How she ended up with a chandelier around her neck as a collar/necklace/adornment?

I happened, this morning, to look at the figure of her that stands atop the tower of video games. One of her wings had somehow gotten into a painful position, so I took her down to adjust it. This figure has that chandelier, complete with dangling chains. It's a seperate piece that you can actually take off.

I took it off. And I put my hand through it. It just fit. I decided to put it on the left arm, instead of the right; I don't like having stuff on my drawing arm besides clothes. It looks so cutely goth, with the sconces all in a ring around my wrist and the chain dangling.

Architecture as adornment. Hmmm. There's something worth pursuing there.

Off for the bus.

Comments

[hydra-velsen.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I really though the chandellier made her kinda sexy! Then again I'm a dragon perv, so it doesn't take much to please.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, it did - a few bits of jewelry on an otherwise nude body always calls the nakedness to your attention. She looks rather odd without it. But it's on me right now, because I stole it because I'm bigger! (plus, she's just a toy, so it's not like she put up a fight.)

It makes my skinny wrist look even skinnier!

[spengler.livejournal.com]

Pictures! 8)

[hydra-velsen.livejournal.com]

I was once toying with the concept of architecture as clothing. One particular idea I had was for a shirt with "flying buttresses" under the arms, sort of like a cloth webbing, inset with beads made to resemble smoothely cut quarrystone. It's be flexible, yet give the illusion of stone supports holding up a cathedral. I was also toying with the idea of using stained glass in clothing, perhaps a stained glass window running up the sides of a pair of pants or a shirt.

[delcan.livejournal.com]

Plus collars give a person that 'take me I'm yours' look when they work right.

(It's more of a 'I'm dirtier than most people you know' look when they don't work right, but that's a different topic altogether.)

Is the chandelier/collar metal, or plastic? If metal, then very nice. I'm suddenly wondering whether or not an entire ballroom look would look good on a person - candle fixtures on the shoulders, elaborate wood-looking clothing, hanging tapestries, balcony-brassiere...

Okay, maybe only for avant garde high-fashion strangeness. But if the chandelier works, then cool!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Both "take me, I'm yours" and "I'm dirtier than most people you know" are worthwhile looks to have.

It was just plastic; it's an accessory for an action figure! Plastic with a fake age patina, and an actual chain of little plastic links, it wasn't a low-rent figure, but still. All plastic.