Amanda Keitch – United Kingdom

Description

My hat has been made using traditional millinery couture skills. In using vinyl records which are round and once on a turntable produce music, I wanted to create a different and a paradoxical equilibrium in the re-balance, poise and a symmetry in a different, random and an almost chaotic but balanced spikeyness. I was also inspired by a piece of music by Grave Jones, “Slave to the Rhythm” when looking at the hat whilst playing the music, which the records are made of the equilibrium is balanced.

Materials

• buckram
• French canvas
• PVC
• vinyl records
• Goose Biot feathers
• Jet crystals
• Black sequins
• Ostrich feathers

Techniques

• hand blocked buckrum and canvas base steamed over wooden block
• hand blocked PVC fabric steamed and stitched over the base
• vinyl records sawed and filed into shard shapes and stuck onto base
• feather stuck onto base
• crystals and sequins stuck individually onto the record shards.