Bishopston Hardwear is encased in a swirl of metallic lace. Everything here that should be soft is hard including the laquered black body. She is literally tethered to a base by her skirt – but she does have wings so she may yet escape. The somewhat fetishistic dress style both attracts and repels simultaneously in the way that bondage/S&M dress styles often do. In this mode the clothing and status of a person can be ambiguous and it is this I am trying to express here in a fairly obvious way. The beauty and suggested attainability of a woman who is both freed and bound by clothing, conventions and preconceptions. I like to think she’s seductive and spikey.