Portrait of Grinnell The Architecture and Landscape of Grinnell College Book

I was inspired from the deconstruction fashion and design article. I had been thinking about a "frankincense" costume for the "Wearable ARts Christmas pageant" at church. I finished the GOLD costume with emma's alligator painting from High School which I cut up to make a pyramid. The pyramid went on the back of the night starry cape to symbolize that gold was used to get the holy family to Egypt. But the Frankincense costume hung over me. The charge was to make it symbolise prayer. I looked Frankincense up in wikipedia and found out about the tree and the look of it. I thought of making a smoke costume, of using a pendulum incense thing; then later of wearing a sandwich board with prayer verbs on it. Both stinky ideas.

So I read this deconstruction article....... sazaam! I went to the op shop and bought a beautiful, green woolen jersey and a white jacqui tee shirt. I cut long rectangles out of the jersey , put it on inside out and wrote the verbs of the lord's prayer in red on the tee. Then I blanket stiched the two together around the rectangles. On one sleeve I did a circle with "Bless" on the tee shirt. So just as Jesus deconstructed the prayers of Animal sacrifice and smoke I used a deconstructed fashion idea.