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. Precariously seated between mimicry and interpretation, this work is capable of speech without verbalization. A medium where beloved stories are told and retold through corporeal fantasy.
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 expressions, proportions, or textures invite familiarity and provoke emotion?
I ask these questions in pursuit of the moment where, at last, resemblance yields 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. Some designs require weeks of labor but still resist completion, requiring space for perpetual evolution and refinement.
Each costume reaches beyond itself, toward the story it cannot fully contain.