Holiday Cheer, Spiked or Straight
How do you like your celebration? Taylor Mac gives it to you dazzling and arch, while “Meet Me in St. Louis” is a nostalgic comfort.
Taylor Mac, costumed by Machine Dazzle with makeup by Anastasia Durasova, in “Holiday Sauce … Pandemic!”Credit.via Pomegranate Arts
Dec. 15, 2020
Taylor Mac’s autumn-harvest headdress is such an elaborate landscape of apples and gourds that the gleaming green talons reaching out of it come across as a subtle touch.
Beneath it, the makeup is mesmerizing: an almost trompe l’oeil tribute to the 16th-century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who depicted people with vegetables where facial features would otherwise be.