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Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2018 School for Advanced Research.

“Cascade”

Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2018 School for Advanced Research.

“Cascade”

Date: 2017
Artist or Maker: Loren Aragon (b. 1979)
Dimensions:
Dress: 167.6 × 44.5 cm (66 × 17 1/2 in.)
Bodice: 35 × 42 × 2 cm (13 3/4 × 16 9/16 × 13/16 in.)
Medium: crepe, silk | chiffon, silk | organza, silk | taffeta, silk | leather (cow, commercial) | silver, sterling | turquoise, Kingman, stabilized | metal
Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 2018.
Place Made:
Santa Fe County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
Object Number: SAR.2018-3-1AB
Not on view
DescriptionA long black, tiered dress (part A) made with various silk fabrics (crepe, chiffon, organza, and taffeta), over which a two-piece black leather bodice is meant to be tied. The bodice (part B) is made of commercially tanned cow leather and is decorated with twelve sterling silver rings of varying sizes and three small turquoise cabochons set in silver, in the centers of three of the rings. The silver rings are fastened via "cold fusion" (the prongs puncture the leather and are bent over to hold in place. The turquoise pieces are bezel set.
In Collection(s)
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