Costuming is an interesting question. In the first act people wear normal clothes but all Gibson’s camping gear should look very new. In the second act, clothing is looking a little worn, with a few newly made (sewn, knit) pieces. In the third act everyone is ‘costumed’ to look like The Simpsons and should be wearing a combination of vintage pieces

The unsmiling faces and the sepia tones drain their lives of colour and emotion. This has become a part of the popular chronicling of the nineteenth century, and yet to turn the pages of Anne’s album is to be let into a well-kept secret. These were not colourless people, but ones who lived in an age of technical innovation and fast-paced change.

It is especially true for artists who wear clothing as part of performance, and for those who make clothing as part of their practice. This mode of working is incredibly new, in the context of the millennia of mark-making.