Zac Morris was today's collaborater, and when he came over we didn't really have any plans at all. As we talked, I lit some cherry and cinnamon candles in my loft upstairs, and we unloaded some little boxes of useless crap I'd collected over the years, which we hoped would give us something to start our artworks with. In the boxes were barbie doll heads, old plastic toys from kinder surprises, glow in the dark dinosaurs and bats and lizards, broken ceramic and glass pieces, golden stars, string, playing cards, figurines, old pill boxes, tiny battle soldiers, scraps of material. I also had a whole heap of old clothes I didn't want to wear. We were considering cutting the clothes up and making new clothes. Zac said he felt like making a corset. I happened to have an old one that someone had given me because they didn't want it anymore. I forgot to take a photo of the corset before we demolished it, but it was white, with small blue flowers on it. Kind of Japanese-looking. As we considered what to do, I was playing around with the melted wax in one of the candles I'd lit. Why didn't we just pour the wax over the corset and see what happened? Zac was a genius. It looked awesome. And it smelt SO GOOD. I traced around the patterns made by the wax, and then got bored with that and started drawing spiderwebs instead. We got out the hot glue gun and started sticking some things from the boxes onto it, then pouring more wax over the top. Then, after testing the corset out on me until we were happy with it, we went outside (for the five seconds that it wasn't raining) and took some photos of Zac in it, with a big blue tutu and tiny pink tartan skirt that were both hiding in the corner of my wardrobe. He wore his jeans and awesome shoes from Harijuku under it all, modelled like a queen, and this was the result:
The ghost said
"Take of both your shoes
whatever chances you get
especially when they're wet".
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