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[estelofimladris]

Team Europa's final work from our Getty weekend. Three teams had about 36 hours to build an adaptation of Rembrandt's Abduction of Europa. See them on Monday at the #gettycollegenight outside of the Rembrandt room!! #gradschool #tftatgetty (at Getty Museum)

[estelofimladris]

Fun facts about my manic night at the museum:

I burnt myself on my arm on my heat gun. Because stopping for a band-aid sounded too hard, I slapped some packing tape on it that wasn’t removed until about 5:30PM on Saturday.

I spent the better part of the overnight building a blue dress out of automotive paper towels that I had to soak so they would expand, hang dry, press, and reinforce. The bodice and skirt were draped using period references and research of Dutch dress in the 1650s. It was all actually stitched using a sewing machine including top stitching, smocking, and pressed seams. I am very proud of that dress, but it could not be painted or dyed after it was built because when wet, the paper towels expand and when they dry, they do not reform the same way they were before being wet. For reasons beyond mine or my team’s control, we had to change the color, so that dress never made it to the final work.

The red dress of the final artwork was made in under an hour.

I engineered armature wires within the costume in a few places to allow it to have a windswept look for the motion of the piece.

The skirt was dyed with fountain pen inks that my brother gave me.

I showed up with twice the luggage of the rest of the students, but had more shit that we needed than anyone else.

Myself and one other member of my team are the only ones to not sleep during the entirety of the 16 hour challenge.

Though we didn’t win, I’m very proud of what we accomplished as a team. I’m very proud of what we as a group of students through all three groups created. I love how our final work turned out. I leaned into my experience of all-nighter cosplay binge builds and years of working with non-traditional materials. I’m grateful to have stayed overnight at the Getty and I’m extremely excited to see our work on display INSIDE THE GETTY tomorrow night.

[estelofimladris]

Come visit these beautiful works inspired by Rembrandt's Abduction of Europa up near Dutch and Flemmish painting galleries and talk to the artists who made them! #gettycollegenight #tftatgetty #ucla #costumedesign #scenicdesign #gradschool #tft

[estelofimladris]

Half scale dress details. You'll never guess what this is made of. #gettycollegenight #tftatgetty #gradschool (at Getty Museum)

[estelofimladris]

Art lecture and discussion leading up to tonight's creative madness!! #tftatgetty