Beauty :: Tease Me [The ZOO]

Tease Me

As Edward Scissorhands turned any row of shrubs and hedges into a sculptural museum, Martin Christopher Harper creates fantastical shapes with hair, often with subtextual references to pop culture.

The days of big bold teased hair are often placed in the eighties, but Christopher certainly doesn't fit into that box. In creating unique shapes, he re-imagines the teased texture in completely distinctive styles reminiscent of the '60s beehive, disco hair a la Donna Summer, and romantic hairdos one imagines in late nineteenth century Bohemian England. But even out of contemporary cultural context, these hair experiments create worlds of their own using structure and texture. They play with gravity and demonstrate the dramatic effect of framing the face with texture that mimics the clouds. more...

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