LOGBOOK, ENTRY 3
SUMMER 2025
SUMMER 2025
form and fiction, assembled
As a hybrid of performance art and material study, cosplay mobilizes clothing, armor, and ornament as vehicles of narrative. Form evolves beyond decoration into a declarative visual language of memory to propose new methods of understanding. This work is capable of speech without verbalization, transmuting the body into canvas and conduit. The maker becomes the medium, embodying a fantasy in order to retell its story.
In other words, I create these costumes as a love letter to media that inspires me in a recursive gesture of reverence.
What details make a character feel real? Which gestures, proportions, or textures invite familiarity and provoke emotion?
I ask these questions in pursuit of the evocative moment when resemblance gives way to recognition.
Materials are selected for function and symbol. Patterns emerge through conceptual research, craftsmanship, and experimentation. Techniques, historical and contemporary, are combined to blur the boundary between the fabricated and the believable. Labor accumulates quietly. Some designs require weeks to complete and still resist resolution, requiring space for perpetual evolution and refinement.
Each costume gestures beyond itself, toward the story it cannot fully contain.