CPS WEEK 3: Found Object - Balloon Mask

In response to the theme of Found Object, I made a wearable mask using latex balloons that were laying around the house. 

By creating a patchwork of cut up pieces of latex balloon, I showed that even usually wholesome and brightly coloured objects can be used to craft something creepy as hell, subverting the source material with the final object.

Similar work has been produced by Daisy Collingridge, whose work sculptural costumes made from stockings explores this theme by taking objects and materials that have a widely accepted use and transforming them into something abject and strange, their function being completely recontextualised.