Wild Kig Mask

2024

Plastic, wool, broomcorn, straw, raffia, water caltrop pod, silk ribbon, dried babys breath flower

38 x 30 x 10 cm

Wild Kig is a kigurumi fursuit mask customized with natural fibers. Kigurumi are a type of super-deformed fursuit first popularized in East Asian furry communities, now popular in furry fandoms internationally. By creating a kigurumi mask with plant and animal derived materials, I'm interested in putting fursuiting— a practice often seen as novel and bizarre even within fandom communities— in a strange lineage with ritual wild men, mummers, gilly suits, and other worldwide traditions of transformationally obscuring the body in giant zoomorphic costume.