First off, your comments on Guess That Mess! are hilarious! I totally love them, thank you for playing along. It was so great, we’re contemplating making it a regular feature here at Craftastrophe.
And without further ado, the Mess? Though I much perfer some of your answers, the jacket it made of synthetic doll hair, Spanish Moss, and jute.
I had to google the later since I have NO idea what the heck ‘jute’ is.
Okay, so I googled Spanish Moss as well.
A jacket? If the sleeves where only a touch longer they could be wrapped around the body and fastened behind to resemble another kind of jacket.
Justine’s comment made me spit coffee all over my computer:
Ummm – a horrifically misguided attempt at making fake vomit?
A sweater or coat made from shed dog fur? With nicotine-stained glue-gun applique?
A loofah and mucus sculpture?
A coat made of human hair? (Please don’t be pubic hair, please don’t be pubic hair…)
And you! to! can own this jacket for a mere $525!
Maybe for that price they’ll toss in the skinned doll heads? Hey, you could ask!
Or how about this?
I don’t know what’s funnier: the fact that I actually wretched at the sight of this or it’s title, “Not Yet Titled”.
Oh, and this one? $1,300. The Stained Industrial Elastic? $3,500.
Yes. Yes it is.
Why didn’t I become an artist?
{source: hair jacket, elastic band art, “Not Yet Titled“}
May 8th, 2009 at 10:03 am
I have to stop looking at this when I’m eating!
May 8th, 2009 at 10:19 am
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little…… LOL
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May 8th, 2009 at 10:22 am
It looks like someone sewed went on long crazypersonwalks through the forest for a month, gathering up a bunch of those mousebone balls that owls puke up, then sewed them together. I wonder if, during the collection phase, they kept them in a mousebone ball cozy. Made of felted dog hair and monkey poos. Possibly all of this was done as a final, culminating act of crazy.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:21 am
UUGH! $525 for that jacket is beyond highway robbery; it scares me to think that someone out there might actually wear it. I guess if you were dressing as a giant hairball for Halloween it might be appropriate. Or maybe as one of the goblins from Labyrinth.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
After I brush my cat, I take the hair and roll it in a wad ball thing for her to play with afterwards as a small reward for letting me brush her. (She hates being brushed, and the hair ball thing gets tossed after a day or two.) This sculpture could be made out of those hair ball things. But the real question I have about these pieces is – WHY?????
May 8th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Woo! Spit take! Glad you found it funny!
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May 9th, 2009 at 6:04 am
Oh god I think I saw something like this before.
Yes! Aren’t those what owls poop out when they devour mice? It looks like a combination of owl pellets and shaped into a gauntlet. A gauntlet of owl poop. I can feel my dexterity rising already.
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May 9th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Holy fright.
No clue what that thing is composed of….hairballs sewn together….? Haven’t ever seen mouse-comprised owl poop but I imagine it would look something like this. Ack.
May 9th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Really, go google owl poop and you’ll see stuff that looks almost exactly like this.
May 10th, 2009 at 7:24 am
cocoons? it looks like moth cocoons you find under leaves and whatnot.
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May 16th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
if only i had known all this time that my cats were leaving me gifts to make me rich and not just so i’d step in something squishy as they snickered from the shadows…it would’ve been nice if they had told me.