I've been thinking about how I want to create this series of musical prosthetics. I have a concept of a set of three, and ready to start the first one. For my first prosthetic I've decided to start out with the emotion of mad, angry, irritated. I'm envisioning how we get cocky when we get angry, and I am inspired to make this piece a jewelry piece of sorts, visually elevating the body to look superior. This would convey the, “I know best” feeling that comes along with anger. Now that I have decided I am interested in a jewelry concept, I've begun looking online at various wearable sculptures for inspiration. I am really interested in how wire looks on the body. Because this piece is a dance piece, I don’t want to cover the body and hide it, so find myself drawn to wire and the way it creates form without suffocating the body.  

I started sketching and came up with the idea of a wearable sculpture that would build in shards off of the human body, growing organically off of the human form as a series of prisms. The prisms would protrude outwards from the body, creating spikes in an offensive armor-like way. The spikes would keep people out and away, but also protect the wearer, keeping them safe as a defensive mechanism. Once I had my sketch I felt confident in my direction and started trying to figure out how to build this prosthetic.