An immersive contemporary anthropological approach to the relation between narratives and myths of the local/native life in the Lower Tapajós region of the Amazon Rainforest and their visual, more importantly bodily textile/garment significations and usages.
Key Words: Amazon Rainforest; Performative Elements; Nature; Dressings; Brazil.
Read MoreWhen my eyes go passed the blurry white effect of being closed facing a light I can see. And the scene in front of me is a very odd one.
A laboratory room, the lighting in it is quite white, as most of the environment, the walls, the floor tiles. Whatever is not white is silver and metal; all seems very easy to clean. If there is a colour point I realise it is either a lab tool or a lab-developed liquid or object. In the centre of the room there is a woman, or a female creature, she looks almost real, but is she a lab creation? She lies down on a lit up table, I could be a lab bed too if a very flat one. The light coming from under her body is white. I see all that from the top, facing straight down.
Read MoreMother of Water is the title of my final project presented to the MA Costume Design for Performance at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. This project consists of the design of a performance costume based on my choice of the theme “Water in Brazilian Folkloric rituals of fertility”.
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