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Nostalgia - all shook up.
They're tomorrow's antiques and today's objets d'art
- but in the world of snowdomes it is forever yesterday, writes
Tim Cornwell.
When Ruth Morris became one of 20 Scottish designers
asked to create their very own snowdome, she thought of childhood.
And childhood, for the Edinburgh clothing designer, was her white
haired Scottish terrier, Snowy.
Morris, who works for her own label ROOBEDO, made clothes for her
pet dogs as a child and makes clothes for humans as an adult. "I
used to make clothes for the dogs and dress them up, including shoes,
which they hated," she says.
So, Snowy is now ready for his close-up: he will go on show at the
Lighthouse in Glasgow next week, at the centre of a snowdome a few
inches tall. Morris constructed him from an old brooch she picked
up in a charity shop, then made him a sparkly ruby-encrusted coat
using lots of glitter and lots of glue. He was accessorised with
a tiny ruby-encrusted ball.
"I put in a touch of the fairy liquid, a tiny bit like they
said," she says. "I boiled up the water and cooled it,
then sealed it up. And put the snow in first. Unfortunately Snowy
hasn't got a tail, because it had fallen off." He doesn't have
any shoes either, but he stands on an eternal grassy lawn, snipped
from a plastic plant used in goldfish aquariums.
'It's Snow Time' (exhibition of specially designed
snowdomes)
The Lighthouse Review Gallery, 56 Mitchell Street, Glasgow G1.
13th November 2003 - 11th January 2004.
www.scotsman.com
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