Sylvie Macmillan has pushed the boundaries ofnail art, and we mean that literally.
“Its a huge [88-pound] bag of random bits and bobs,” she says.
“There is a way to make every material work, but you cant force it.
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You just have to adapt to it.”
Macmillan painted the aforementioned butterflies withgel polishand “they turned into stained glass windows,” she says.
“If something is a little bit grim or grotesque, it can still be beautiful.”
Sylvie Macmillan
“It helped me understand how different materials work and the science of things,” says Macmillan.
“You couldn’t tell where the skin started and the jewelry ended,” she says.
Her creativity may seem endless but its not effortless.
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“You have to keep doing a lot of research.
“I look at what people do with their hands, how they interact with something.
Hands are the telltale version of ourselves, showing how we actually feel.”
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