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08-26-2016, 08:00 PM
The Dead Sea's salty waters transformed this black dress
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Twisted wedding dress inspiration, anyone?
Israeli artist Sigalit Landau's (http://www.sigalitlandau.com/) ****** Salt Bride documents the transition of a black dress that spent three months submerged in the Dead Sea.
SEE ALSO: ASOS has sent someone a**ther pair of ridiculously long jeans (http://mashable.com/2016/08/23/asos-extra-long-jeans/)
Landau and her partner, Yotam From, put together eight large color prints of the garment, which are on display at London's Marlborough Contemporary (http://www.marlboroughlondon.com/exhibitions/sigalit-landau-salt-bride/).
The traditional Hasidic dress Landau used for the project was created to replicate an outfit worn by young bride Leah in The Dybbuk, a 100-year-old Yiddish play.*
In the play, Leah is possessed by an evil spirit and then exorcised. "By submerging Leah's dress in the Dead Sea, it is is transformed underwater as salt crystals gradually adhere to the fabric," a press release from Marlborough Contemporary reads. "Over time, the sea’s alchemy transforms the plain garment from a symbol associated with death and madness into the wedding dress it was always intended to be." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/26/salt-dress-dead-sea/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Twisted wedding dress inspiration, anyone?
Israeli artist Sigalit Landau's (http://www.sigalitlandau.com/) ****** Salt Bride documents the transition of a black dress that spent three months submerged in the Dead Sea.
SEE ALSO: ASOS has sent someone a**ther pair of ridiculously long jeans (http://mashable.com/2016/08/23/asos-extra-long-jeans/)
Landau and her partner, Yotam From, put together eight large color prints of the garment, which are on display at London's Marlborough Contemporary (http://www.marlboroughlondon.com/exhibitions/sigalit-landau-salt-bride/).
The traditional Hasidic dress Landau used for the project was created to replicate an outfit worn by young bride Leah in The Dybbuk, a 100-year-old Yiddish play.*
In the play, Leah is possessed by an evil spirit and then exorcised. "By submerging Leah's dress in the Dead Sea, it is is transformed underwater as salt crystals gradually adhere to the fabric," a press release from Marlborough Contemporary reads. "Over time, the sea’s alchemy transforms the plain garment from a symbol associated with death and madness into the wedding dress it was always intended to be." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/26/salt-dress-dead-sea/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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