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An artist who had gone bonkers caused a stir and had people in stitches in London when he walked around the capital dressed head-to-toe in a suit made of chicken skin, Mirror.co.uk reports.
The bizarre outfit is part of FLESH (a project by artists Lewis G. Burton [the person in the suit] and Victor Ivanov [the man who sews him into it]).
Lewis G. Burton performed the fowl fashion parade for the project, which according to its website, is “an experiment that aims to examine the relationship between identity and its commodification through social medias”.
It’s not clear if that’s ‘eggs-actly’ what passers-by in London thought when they witnessed Lewis strolling around in his gob-smacking garb. In fact, many people on social media compared the artist’s outfit to a poultry version of a ‘gimp suit’ favoured by fetish fans.
And their website blurb added: “By creating an entity from chicken skin, a commodified object in itself, the artists are then introducing it into the social sphere, both online and offline.”
Yet another social media user called Greeny commented: “I actually saw the final performance piece for this at the artists’ final major project. It smelled very bad.”
It’s unclear whether the artists will be successful in their goal of “stimulating the social sphere” with their FLESH project, but so far it sure seems to be capturing people’s attention. Were such thing to happen in Kenya, most of us, upon seeing the man, would chicken out and bolt.
