Vessel Corset
Square, angular corset style featuring secondhand canvas fabric that has been painted to resemble skin. Top surgery scars have been stitched into the chest and red blood drops hang from them. Spiral steel boning (light toned corset has firm white steel boning in the front portion while the darker skin tone is spiral boned throughout). Lacing in the back with brass eyelets and cotton macrame cord.
These corsets are a meditation on the idea of body autonomy. The idea that bodies are a vessel for the soul recurs throughout this collection. Our flesh is a medium to be poked, prodded, molded and formed to fit our identities within—every person is an artist in their own rite by this idea. To be cut open and sewn shut on this basis then is an act of creation. Being non-binary I’ve often thought of the ways gender is expressed and cultivated, and the feeling of forced separation between my body and what feels like my true self. May these garments be a tool for others to ruminate on the idea of bodily change, creation and sustaining the self.
**Recommended maximum lacing is +3”, but up to your discretion!
Measurement of the dark-toned corset at tightest lacing:
bust 32” • waist 26” • front length 12”
Measurements of the light-toned corset at tightest lacing:
bust 30” • waist 26” • front length 13.5”
Square, angular corset style featuring secondhand canvas fabric that has been painted to resemble skin. Top surgery scars have been stitched into the chest and red blood drops hang from them. Spiral steel boning (light toned corset has firm white steel boning in the front portion while the darker skin tone is spiral boned throughout). Lacing in the back with brass eyelets and cotton macrame cord.
These corsets are a meditation on the idea of body autonomy. The idea that bodies are a vessel for the soul recurs throughout this collection. Our flesh is a medium to be poked, prodded, molded and formed to fit our identities within—every person is an artist in their own rite by this idea. To be cut open and sewn shut on this basis then is an act of creation. Being non-binary I’ve often thought of the ways gender is expressed and cultivated, and the feeling of forced separation between my body and what feels like my true self. May these garments be a tool for others to ruminate on the idea of bodily change, creation and sustaining the self.
**Recommended maximum lacing is +3”, but up to your discretion!
Measurement of the dark-toned corset at tightest lacing:
bust 32” • waist 26” • front length 12”
Measurements of the light-toned corset at tightest lacing:
bust 30” • waist 26” • front length 13.5”
Square, angular corset style featuring secondhand canvas fabric that has been painted to resemble skin. Top surgery scars have been stitched into the chest and red blood drops hang from them. Spiral steel boning (light toned corset has firm white steel boning in the front portion while the darker skin tone is spiral boned throughout). Lacing in the back with brass eyelets and cotton macrame cord.
These corsets are a meditation on the idea of body autonomy. The idea that bodies are a vessel for the soul recurs throughout this collection. Our flesh is a medium to be poked, prodded, molded and formed to fit our identities within—every person is an artist in their own rite by this idea. To be cut open and sewn shut on this basis then is an act of creation. Being non-binary I’ve often thought of the ways gender is expressed and cultivated, and the feeling of forced separation between my body and what feels like my true self. May these garments be a tool for others to ruminate on the idea of bodily change, creation and sustaining the self.
**Recommended maximum lacing is +3”, but up to your discretion!
Measurement of the dark-toned corset at tightest lacing:
bust 32” • waist 26” • front length 12”
Measurements of the light-toned corset at tightest lacing:
bust 30” • waist 26” • front length 13.5”