The 'Cellophane' singer is struggling with Covid-19 lockdown as she has no outlets to express her creativity while she's being cooped up at home during the pandemic.
- Apr 22, 2020
AceShowbiz - FKA twigs is finding lockdown a "painful" experience as she misses being able to act on her creative and collaborative instincts.
Like all Brits, the British singer, dancer, and artist has to stay in isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic - but is finding it especially hard as she can't fit into her usual creative routine - even though she has teamed up with artist Lyle XOX for a new art project based on recycling other stars' junk.
"Being able to collaborate is one of the great joys of being a human," Twigs explains in a press release. "If I didn't think that before all of this, boy do I feel it now, only a month into having ideas and having nowhere to put them that feels concrete is quite painful."
Although she's struggling in lockdown, the British singer, dancer, and artist has teamed up with Lyle and photographer Nhu Xuan Hua on a new series of portraits for Dazed magazine's beauty section, titled "Beauty of the Discarded".
The pictures feature Twigs, real name Tahliah Barnett, wearing old items discarded by the likes of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Courtney Love, including a discarded bra, an old copy of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet", bottle tops left by a drinking game, and an old cassette, as headgear or face coverings.
"This project is about the beauty of the discarded," she says. "It's about how often we as humans get it wrong. We've discarded how we're supposed to live as humans and now we're realising there are more simple ways to exist and that the closer we are to the earth the closer we are to the truth."
Others who donated items include producer Benny Blanco, fashion designer Ed Marler, and environmental activist Daze Aghaji.
