Piranesi suspenders

                                                     My Piranesi Suspenders complete

                                                        Drawn by hand with waterproof ink

                                                         3 of the actual Piranesi Plates...

For many years I have been a huge fan of Giovanni Battesti Piranesi, an 18th century mastermind of arts, draftsmanship, architecture and design.  Luckily many of his works have been reprinted in affordable art book format (Dover Publications amongst others)  so that his masterpieces can be readily enjoyed.  For any fan of architecture, Italy, or ruins, I especially encourage you to become aware of this amazing artist.  Because of my love of his "Prison Series"- a set of 16 etchings depicting fictitious, Escher-like interiors full of imaginary columns, staircases, machinery etc all presented in a graphic, moody drawing style, I created a pair of braces, or suspenders inspired by said images.  Mens clothing, on the whole, is somewhat lackluster in its inspiration.  I have, for the past year or two, been taking great pleasure in "enhancing" many of my store bought garments with paint, add-on fabrics and leather, studs, and now drawing.  I concentrated on shoes at first, but see whole new possibilities in accessories and clothing.  I am thinking of a nice white linen shirt for summer, done up in this same treatment I gave to the suspenders.  Please let me know what you think!