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Wearable Sculptures by Tracy Featherstone

Wearable Structures by Tracy Featherstone is a series of artistic wooden sculptures that interact with the body. They seem to be built around oneself, like giant geometric fungi.

Arm Extended, 2010

Arm Extended, 2010

Over the past few years Tracy has been exploring the daily struggle we all face between control and chaos. She says “The balance is precarious and can tip one way or another in an instant.” Using traditional building materials to create micro-environmental structures that attach to our bodies is a way to try and control, or “impose order on a situation that is moving out of control.”

Nodules, 2010

Nodules, 2010

Yellow Pod, 2010

Yellow Pod, 2010

Head Organized, 2010

Head Organized, 2010

Tudor, 2011

Tudor, 2011

Side Bump, 2010

Side Bump, 2010

New Shape, 2012

New Shape, 2012

Plank, 2012

Plank, 2012

Jaime Derringer, Founder + Executive Editor of Design Milk, is a Jersey girl living in SoCal. She dreams about funky, artistic jewelry + having enough free time to enjoy some of her favorite things—running, reading, making music, and drawing.