Michelle Fornabai
b. 1967 Ridgewood, New Jersey

Prototype 1 (Petal Pant) 2004
fabric, acrylic rod
28 x 72 inches (pants)
48 x 60 x 144 inches (tent)
On loan from the artist

Concerned with merging issues and structure of the
body with those of tensile and pneumatic experiments in architecture, Fornabai is developing wearables that unfold to become spaces that can be occupied.