Fallulah - or is human hair going to be the next thing?

I´ve been using human hair in my art for quite some years now. And it never stops to fascinate me how repulsive most people think the idea of somebody elses hair is. Mostly people won´t touch my art at all if it involves human hair.

So I found it very funny when I watched the danish music award show P3 Guld and the winner of the big prize, Fallulah, showed  up wearing a dress made partly out of human hair.

If I ever have the luck to meet this wonderful woman, I`ll make sure to ask her if anybody hughed her that evening.... anybody?

 

I don´t know who made this dress and where that idea came from (if you do know, please drop me a line). My friend Janis suggested "Maybe people have been watching you with hair in your art :))  Next they'll be dressing in teeth too :)". Dressing in teeth? I can hardly wait!

The photo is taken by  Per Lange, and I borrowed it from Gaffa´s homepage. I hope I´m not in trouble.

Flying low

I´m still here. Sort of. I think.

I´m having a slipped disc in my back and one more on the way to slip, and a lot of pain, and I´m waiting to find out if I´m going to have an operation or not. So it´s really hard to find energy to be creative... and even positive.

I did have a very good experience during Easter though. I stumbled across Etsy.com and their Homemade section, and came across a LOT of inspiriring stuff. Mostly clothes, which made me take out my sewing machines again  for the first time in years, to make some clothes for myself.

And I bought some very small glass bottles and some leather necklace cords to hang them in, so you can wear them around your neck.

The glass bottles arrived in the mail today, and for a little while I managed to forget my back and leg pain. I put in all kinds of stuff, paper with text, my own hair, animal bones, freshwater pearls, gold glitter, white horsehair. I´m thinking of them as small talismans in some way.
I´m still waiting for the leather cords with anticipation, so I can open my Etsy shop. I´ll let you know here when I do:-)