LONDON, Aug. 6 (BUS) – British artist Daniel Lismore’s “wearable art” pieces of everything from rubbish to bejeweled headdresses took center stage at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on Friday.
Guests were invited to inspect the nearly two-meter (6-foot-4-inch) pieces worn by Lismore, who calls himself a “living sculpture”.
“I’m not a performance artist or a drag queen, I just live as an artist,” he said in an interview, according to Reuters.
Lismore said the pieces – which feature brightly colored fabrics and metallic trim – took anywhere from two hours to eight months to assemble and were inspired by people and things from all over the world.
“There are hundreds of stories in every piece,” he said.
“There’s an honorary cover for ID. There’s a piece I wore to Buckingham Palace for the Queen’s Platinum party. There are pieces from everywhere you can imagine, things I find on the floor, trash, pieces from Bulgari, pieces from everywhere.”
He said the piece he wore on Friday was among his heaviest, and included items of personal importance.
“I wanted to put down all of my memories over the years, since I was a teenager, when I was bullied and all these things that have meant something to me my whole life,” Lismore said.
“And it had mirrors in it, it was kind of like thinking of who was looking at me so they could somehow see themselves inside of me.”
The artist, who made his London debut with the show, presented 12 pieces from his traveling exhibition “Be Yourself, Everybody Else is Taken,” which opened in Atlanta in 2016.
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