BEAUTY: Art For Halloween--Laurence Le Constant

French artist Laurence Le Constant was trained as a sequins designer and worked for prestigious haute couture workshops like Chanel, Dior, Emmanuel Ungaro, and Prada when she branched out and started working with feathers. After her grandmother died in 2010, she made a work of feathers on a resin skull as a tribute. She continued making these feathered skulls for other female family members, friends, and women at large who have passed on.

Her website says:
"In the series MY LOVELY BONES, the artist becomes an archaeologist of memory. First-named MICHELINE, TINA and MARIA, her vanitas are portraits of prominent women from near and far, echoing her personal genealogy. Each piece is unique and requires hundreds of hours of work. The carefully selected feathers, are glued one by one on a resin base. Halfway between funerary outsider art and haute couture, the artist sculpts feather like one would weave a cocoon. Incantatory gestures, hypnotic technique, behind the symbols loaded with anxiety, she tries to ward off oblivion."

Le Constant gets her feathers from animals farmed for the food industry in Europe and never uses feathers from protected or endangered birds.

Top to bottom: Caroline; Clarissa; Coline; Colombe; Desiree; Estella; Frida; Genevieve; Janice; Mirella

https://www.laurenceleconstant.com/