Face to Face with the World’s Best (International Finalist), National WOW Museum, Annesbrook, NSN, New Zealand| Curated by Dame Suzie Moncreiff | 2017
Madame Deficit was designed as a statement on excess and appeared as a finalist garment in Weta Workshop's former Costume & Film Category in World of WearableArt's international design competition. The garment exhibited for a year thereafter in Nelson, New Zealand's National World of WearableArt Museum. Fabricated largely by hand-craftsmanship the piece features free-hand embroidery, hand-beading, a rigilene-boned structure, canvas-backed lining, hand-cut floral appliqués and a foam-cut harness-style undergarment. The headdress was hand-built in three tiers of miniatures portraying facets of Antoinette's life.
Untitled Final Fridays (Interactive Installation), Adult Program, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO | 2017
The Wishing Kimono was a communal fashion installation designed to engage visitors in intercommunication. The installation draws upon past memories in Kyoto, Japan as a teen. Echoing the intentional practice of Ema plaque prayers at Japanese Shinto shrines, visitors similarly expressed written wishes on hand-dyed fabric tags and placed them on the Wishing Kimono (a red monochrome contemporary kimono displayed on a red faceless form). The process engaged visitors in a moment of deep reflection, connection, and contribution. As each wish joined others it evolved the look of the garment. The expression and tangibility of written word created a powerful experience in a shared public space evoking joy in participants who felt community in resonance with other's wishes.