Religious armour - christianity

^{christianity itself has been included in armour for ages, usually with the boon that the lord will protect you. however, im looking more into the sense that christianity sees itself as an armour to protect its followers from harm. The armour is a metaphorical, stating that wearing the religion will hinder any harm that comes to you if it is sent from the devil.
"} Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. ¹¹ Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. ¹² For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. ¹³ Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. ¹⁴ Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, ¹⁵ and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. ¹⁶ In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. ¹⁷ Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

¹⁸ And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people."

I love the idea of this, this is what i intend to look at in my work.

 

 

Also, this armour would be fucking hilarious if the pope actually wore it!!!

The popes hidden secret

So i was wanting to do this kind of work where i exposed the pope, or in a sense jsut made fun of him because it was funny. I thought the idea of making him into some crossdressing biblical figure would be hilarious, mianly cause of all the debate it would spark. (lols)

If you can picture the actual pope dressed like this then i dare you not to laugh, cause it would be funny. and  thats all i want it too be.

Funny little doodle, featuring the pope

I did this little doodle the other day after seeing some of Soren bachs work, after I got into it I realised it looked abit like the pope, which just made me wee myself. I kinda have him a little story next to him, it's reads:

And so the pope looked on, wondering where life was taking him and he could only ask... Why? Why was his religion so fucked up? Why wasn't he aloud to look like this? Why did he love this so much? WHY? 

Pom poms

These pom poms dont loko like they're made from any fabric, they look like the little polystyrene balls you get in pillows, teddies etc. We have a large amount of this at college to i might experiment a little bit with it, maybe if i mix it with dye/ink and glue? if a small scale one works i'll try and do a much larger one, that would be an end point for the idea of the orbs, actually having a giant orb for someone to wear.

Soren bach

I might try doing something like this, but maybe on a smaller scale.

 

 

Soren Bach is a recent graduate from the Royal College of Art, he worked commercially as a hairdresser but has recently broke out as a modern designer, already having 3 collections under his own name. The collection above is named "Graduation", it really interested my because of the use of pom poms in the first picture, it really stretches the idea of what a hat is and what a hat can be. 

 

Hanna Whitehead

http://hannadiswhitehead.tumblr.com/

 

I really like this artists work, she kind of mixes what i percieve as fashion with fine art/performance. This particular picture above connects with my work both because of the sphere shape and the fact it looks like an abscure hat. Mostly is connects with my work because of how different it is, it looks weird and thats what i love!

 

 

I think im going to try and get in touch with the artist who did it (although i think shes french, bonjour, jampapple fromage?)

 

just checked again, shes from iceland, so is she icelandic? i dont know. 

Peruvian hats

Ive started looking at peruvian hats for my project as its started going more into the meaning of the orbs and what they look like on the body. The type of hat i was thinking of hasnt really been done yet, but the closest variant i can find is these hats, which have been widely used through fashion in recent years.