HATalk Competition Entry 2022
Megan K. Hughes
Description
A breeze might carry me to my happy place, where hope, like a dandelion seed, is ready and alive. To catch a moment, a floating second in a day, a peaceful reverie, a potential notion, is the happiest place I know. This happy place, the living, drifting place of dreams, is the smallest pure wish that accompanies a magical calm moment, anywhere, and any day…
Techniques:
- Created alice band from cotton coated millinery wire, wrapped band in tulle
- Formed body of dandelion seed from foam clay, overaid on cotton coated millinery wire
- Overlaid silk abaca on seed body
- Secured each ostrich feather to millinery wire, then to seed body to create seed frond
- Applied gold leafing
- Applied seed frond bead
- Secured dandelion seed to alice band
- Applied hat elastic to headpiece
Materials:
- Cotton coated millinery wire
- Tulle
- Silk abaca
- Gold leaf
- Foam clay
- Semi-skeletonized ostrich feathers
- Gold bead
- Hat elastic
Materials:
- Cotton coated millinery wire
- Tulle
- Silk abaca
- Gold leaf
- Foam clay
- Semi-skeletonized ostrich feathers
- Gold bead
- Hat elastic
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