Elizabeth Guettler: Fantasie des Filles
Recycled materials: cotton sheeting, house paints, curtain sheers and beach shells.
I am a fourteen-year-old, native Georgian, currently situated in Atlanta. My mother is an artist and an art teacher, so I grew up with an appreciation of art, and a will to join in and create it. I prefer painting, but I also really enjoy using multi-media, to structure the effect I want. Though my art is little more than an interesting, yet impassioned hobby, it's a way of balancing out my scientific admiration with something free-spirited and open-minded.
There are many milestones in a girl's life. They include (but aren't limited to): her birth, her marriage/wedding, and the birth of her children. Of these events, the wedding remains the only occasion that allows a girl to control her beauty, or her image. All girls, no matter what country they're from, dream of their weddings from a very early age. It's an opportunity to perfect themselves--knowing that for this one brief period in time, the spotlight will rest on them. In any society, girls beautify themselves to ultimately find this "perfect image."
The wedding dress signifies this. It calls upon the uniqueness of the individual wearing it, and it is one of the main elements of the ceremony that is fantasied about from the start. It can be an heirloom, or simply the mark of present-day attire, but whatever it is, the wearer feels stunning in it.
The Jackson Pollock-inspired fabric represents the chaos of a wedding and a reminder of the distinctiveness involved in the planning and creating of the dress. In contrast, the opaque over-lay is meant to symbolize the idealistic "perfection" of weddings, and the hope for order during such a significant occasion. It is equally a representation of grace; the sheer, silk-like material suggests a sense of refined elegance. Although the dress embodies the appearance of perfection, the crazy unpredictability overall individualizes the experience, and defines it as one's own.
I used the different aspects of the dress to create a balanced, but somewhat simple look. The shells are merely an accent, and a small hint of my roots to this area...
I am a fourteen-year-old, native Georgian, currently situated in Atlanta. My mother is an artist and an art teacher, so I grew up with an appreciation of art, and a will to join in and create it. I prefer painting, but I also really enjoy using multi-media, to structure the effect I want. Though my art is little more than an interesting, yet impassioned hobby, it's a way of balancing out my scientific admiration with something free-spirited and open-minded.
There are many milestones in a girl's life. They include (but aren't limited to): her birth, her marriage/wedding, and the birth of her children. Of these events, the wedding remains the only occasion that allows a girl to control her beauty, or her image. All girls, no matter what country they're from, dream of their weddings from a very early age. It's an opportunity to perfect themselves--knowing that for this one brief period in time, the spotlight will rest on them. In any society, girls beautify themselves to ultimately find this "perfect image."
The wedding dress signifies this. It calls upon the uniqueness of the individual wearing it, and it is one of the main elements of the ceremony that is fantasied about from the start. It can be an heirloom, or simply the mark of present-day attire, but whatever it is, the wearer feels stunning in it.
The Jackson Pollock-inspired fabric represents the chaos of a wedding and a reminder of the distinctiveness involved in the planning and creating of the dress. In contrast, the opaque over-lay is meant to symbolize the idealistic "perfection" of weddings, and the hope for order during such a significant occasion. It is equally a representation of grace; the sheer, silk-like material suggests a sense of refined elegance. Although the dress embodies the appearance of perfection, the crazy unpredictability overall individualizes the experience, and defines it as one's own.
I used the different aspects of the dress to create a balanced, but somewhat simple look. The shells are merely an accent, and a small hint of my roots to this area...