A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
Playful, cocktail party-camouflaged dresses with hidden talents depict ways humans could benefit from and appropriate animal defensive behaviors into their clothing.
My three wearable art pieces are designed respectively to inflate like a blowfish when the wearer is intimidated, to imitate the defensive, quill-erecting behavior of porcupines, and to mimic the ability to self-amputate a limb like a lizard.
(Photo: Amy Snyder. Exploratorium. 2008)
Amisha Gadani(BFA'07) is an artist interested in naturally occurring forms and systems; from sinuous curves to swarming patterns and super organisms. Her work, often drawing from curious creatures and their behaviors beckons viewers to share in her hand-picked wonders of the world. She is currently working on a series of "animal homunculus" drawings, and a third animal defense costume inspired by lizards, and other animals that can self-amputate a limb.
