So for our second seminar for this project we had designer and blogger Keiron LeVine visit us, he shared his interest in all things tribal and these are my notes (take a deep breath you could be reading for a while!) -
- paper adornments
- animal adornments
- Phyliss Galembo - west african masquerades
- crocodile scars (National Geographic - crocodile scars - youtube video)
- different parts of the body and different patterns scarred at different points in life (status can also affect them)
- strong links to sexual desire
- important parts of initiation
- Ariana Page Rusell (want to look more into)
- Shilluk and Naba tribes
- Cultural identity
- Shilluk 'pearl crown on head'
- cultural identity
- dr congo - extreme
- scares can show experience
- 'skin becomes a book' (look more into)
- similar to tribal skin painting
- can portray messages to or from the spirit world
- experiment by leaning on things (look more into)
- marks - tiffany barbes - plays with prints from jewellery
- Kolo markings
- scars can be outward or inward
- symbols can be of - bravery, grief and religion
- spiritual meanings - example - Yoruba tribe's Ogun god of iron
- Danielle Bietti - branding
- Phillip Toeledno?
- 'making memories on the skin'
- Omo valley - lots of different tribes and mixed markings
- experiment with rice and papier mache etc
- things can be rubbed into wounds repeatidly to make a more bulged effect
- the scars can have no meaning atall
- scars can be used in fashion, daryl van wouw - glued on studs, alexander mcqueen - scars on leather shoes, wallets and dresses etc
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