Strange and Upsetting, Yet Elaborate Humanoid Blob Costumes
Do you have a strong desire to have the most original costume each year at Halloween? Would you like to dress in a human-like suit that looks like a mixture between a person with a lot of fat, and someone who has been skinned? Then I’ve got just the thing for you.
Daisy Collingridge is a British textile artist who calls her creations “squishys.” The costumes each have a name - Burt, Lippy, Hillary, Clive, Dave, and Nigella. You can check them out on her Instagram, and I’ll include a few photos below. Here’s the artist’s description, and story on her website:
Take a look at Daisy Collingridge’s oddly shaped, slightly off-kilter forms blowing a kiss to the camera or striking a pose, hands on hip and you just might wonder what exactly you’re gazing at. Collingridge’s costumes show the different parts of the body, such as boobs, big stomachs or muscular systems, through quilted textiles. At first, you may not even be sure that there’s a real person under all those layers, but that’s what makes her pieces all the more surreal.
Unconventional and thought-provoking all at once, the London-based textile artist specialises in squishy, wearable costumes, done up in unusual pastel colours, with bulbous overlapped forms and shapes. Each piece is a unique vision and a statement on the complex aesthetics of the body. Collingridge got her inspiration for the unusual forms from the shapely muscles of bodybuilders and an exhibition she saw during her childhood called Body World, which contained dissected human bodies, animals, and other anatomical structures that were preserved through the process of plastination developed by Gunther von Hagens. She also credits a family full of doctors, nurses and medical workers as key inspiration for her obsession with the bodily form.
If nothing else, they definitely are original! Take a peak and let us know what you think!
