Halloweee — oh look, is that more candy

2007 October 31

by Francesca

I’ve had a fair bit of chocolate (mmm, is that a Snickers? They really satisfy, you know) so things might be a bit waaaaaayhay around here tonight. Mostly, I’m going to take the sneaky way out and show you photos. And while I don’t want to be reductionist (or not permanently) I think that the children’s costumes are pretty representative of who they are right now.

Take Helena for example. She decided last Halloween that this Halloween she wanted to be a “little bunny.” And so she was. Her granny bought her the mask. Her mother made her the costume. Helena sewed on her own tail. She is not any rabbit in particular. Just a rabbit. A little rabbit. A little rabbit who collected all her candy in a carrot she also had her mother make (last night, dammit). She is steady, determined and unflappable. She also likes to be cute and so she is.Daniel finally (after spiraling through wanting to be a television program, an oven, a Martian and Calvin again, decided he wanted to be a black hole that would suck all the available candy into its gravitational well. He wanted people to throw candy into the black hole (that was himself) that would spiral around and land up in a vacuum cleaner bag (because a black hole is a vacuum naturally).

This costume proved to be unmakeable in the Stunt-workshop. In fact, after much tinkering, it still looked way too much like a strange black dirndl skirt. So we surrendered that idea and Daniel decided he could be Space. And carry a black hole. You can just about see it in this picture. Indeed, people did throw candy into the gravitational field and we created a small rent in the space-time continuum for him to retrieve the candy later.

His outfit deconstructs as follows: his head (sprayed red) is a red giant. His body is the solar system. His trousers are stars and constellations with occasional distant galaxies. His flashing sneakers are pulsars and his scarf thing is more star-scattered space. And he carried a black hole.

Complicated, esoteric and deeply quirky. And all about space:
I
carved pumpkins.
This one cracks me up. It’s pumpkin pie, geddit? Oh that kills me.