Marina Gutierrez - Conjure Dress / Body Mask Series
1995
steel wire, mache, copper repousse, recycled cans
5' x 4' x 3'
Conjure Dress is a wearable garment of woven steel lace with a filigree of recycled tin can fruits and submerged artifacts and an enclosed face mask with copper repousse. Constructing identity as imagined memory, the wearer is seen but unable to see.