Her will to capture this sense of the soul floating above and beyond its vessel resulted in the highlighter-fluo ghostly cages seen here: confidently rigid, almost like full-body crinolines, yet invested with such grace and vulnerability, they’re perhaps best thought of as ‘necklace’ dresses, hovering calmly as they hang from the wearer’s neck. The process adopted by Seiran to arrive at these strikingly unorthodox silhouettes, is, no surprise, pretty far from the ordinary itself. “At first, I was thinking to involve 3D printers in the production of my work, as I wanted to incorporate an element of modernity where the materials were concerned. But when I went to Tokyu Hands, a local craft and DIY story, to look further into using 3D printers, I found 3D pens there next to them,” she says. “I noticed that the objects created with the 3D printer were certainly beautiful and stylish, but the objects made by 3D pen looked distorted, frail—even pitiable! Then I thought of the infinite possibilities that creating objects by hand allows you, and realised the potential that using the 3D pen would allow me in creating something that machines never could.”