“VIOLETTA”
Sculpted by
E.V.Day

     E.V. Day (2009) has out done herself again. The fine lines of string that so delicately holds the dress in animated suspension. Each so perfectly placed with the right amount of tension to hold each inch of fabric in weightless suspension.

    This sculptor has it all. When she hung this dress in suspension, she used the tint of color, v-lines creating the feminine outline, fine art of hand-embroidered flowers creating texture, and a steel hoop skirt creating the illusion of space.

    The color of the dress is that of slight yellowing that only ageless time can paint giving  the garment the glow of old love and the elegant life that it once knew. The embroidered flowers that embrace the bottom of the skirt create a garden fenced in by rows and rows of ruffled lace and bows under a Parisian moon.

     Timeless in the soft texture of the fabric and its translucent draping curves she managed to capture every dance, every stage performance imprinted by “Violetta” in this shell of the dress.

      A perfect example of the feminine form by using the v-shape lines in soft ribbon that accent the waistline on the blouse. The steel skeleton and hoop skirt that hold it open giving the dress the element of space and form.
   
      Like a dandelion blowing in the breeze, I imagine this dress on the actor that played “Violetta” gently flowing across a stage with ease and grace.  There is no intensity here only “the dress”. She speaks for herself thanks to the help of her maker E.V. Day (2009).  Ms. Day began to listen to opera  and getting into their stories and that is what lead to the “Divas Ascending” 13 pieces in all.

   She took the retired customs and their characters and put them on a suspended stage. “ I started to get very involved”, she said, “I got so revved by their characters.”

    E.V. Day was born in 1967 in New York.




   

   




E. V. Day (2009) by Kenndy, Robert New York Times Dec. 13, 2012
http:/www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/arts/design/21costumes.html?_r=0