Photo: Suzan and Kelly Jones
Conceptual artist Kasey McMahon (whose works CompuBeaver and Text-o-Possum have been featured on Neatorama before) sent us her latest creation: the Birdcage Dress (yes, it’s a fully functional wearable brass bird cage – notice the birdies?)
Link – Thanks Kasey!
TC
What I love is that there is a random raccoon standing next to her, because, I mean, why just have a wearable birdcage when you can have a raccoon stand next to you too.
violet
I'm going to have to go pro-conceptual art on this one, although I am right now taking a contemporary art class that makes me want to shoot myself in the head every time my idiot teacher opens her mouth.
This is...I don't know....I just kind of love it. But I have a birdcage thing. They are somehow deeply sick and beautiful at the same time. A cage? For birds? Birds being among the only living things that can do something so amazing as FLY?? It's so obscene and awesome.
catlady
I think it's a neat concept. Sort of showing how fashion and beauty can be cages themselves. But eh, nothing amazing or all that original.
DaveL
Throw some rabid badgers in there (or spider monkeys if cute is your thing) and I will declare this neat.
Evilbeagle
Again, violet, we are on the same wavelength. This dress screams "fabulous", makes no apologies for it, and though I myself am not fond of bird cages being that I have to clean one every week and I associate them with budgie poop, there's something so out there about this that I have to love. Would I wear it if given the opportunity? No. Not unless I was invited to a high end costume party by some random noble family. Since that's never going to happen, then it would be safe to say never.
I generally hate artsy fartsy overanalysis of the subjective, which is what art ultimately is, but this sort of inspires me to use words like "appreciation" and "symbolic".
TBV
Right on, DaveL!!!
I'm not an artsy-type (but I have been known to f... nevermind). So I don't agree that "This dress screams "fabulous"". Nor do I think it's "Hot" or "Fierce", nor do I think it "pops".
C'mon people... it's a BIRDCAGE DRESS. A. BIRD. CAGE. DRESS. Sometimes the ridiculous is art, but most of the time it's just ridiculous.
Ajan
how the heck is she planning to walk with that thing around her umm... legs??
elizabeth
The cage has wheels at the bottom so she can maneuver around. Check out the rest of the site too - among other things, there is a Habitrail skirt and a very glamorous dress made of binder clips.
violet
Yeah Evil, I was trying to stay away from the symbolism word, but the birdcage may just be the most perfect metaphor ever. For like, everything.
astrodex
"Fully functional wearable..."
They must have different definitions of those words than I do in relation to clothing.
Evilbeagle
LOL, violet. Indeed. I hate the whole symbolism thing, but you can't escape it with this birdcage around a woman thing. I hate that I am thinking that way.
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