Over the summer I have been exploring the idea of making helmets as a development of the fabric heads. I was thinking that women need to hide their thoughts sometimes, and sometimes their thoughts can be stuck inside the armour a patriarchal society has developed.
Some years back I was in USA and visited a Hunting and Shooting warehouse with my son in law. A huge and to my eyes strange sight/site. Amongst the dress up clothes, hides and many many varieties of guns I found a selection of dead birds, taxidermy. I suppose they might be used as decoys. They were tragic and beautiful, so I bought some and brought them home.
The feather helmet has a wing made of separated feathers, attached with glue gun and some hysteria as I pulled the bird apart. Does it remind me of the winged helmet of Mercury? It looks satisfyingly big and strong and now I intend to build the rest of the helmet from some kind of metal.
The head is made of walnut ink dyed patched fabric and looks quite antique……careworn.
