Sherwin-Williams STIR^® | Mary Younakof 343 Dresses project

Sherwin-Williams® STIR® takes you to Los Angeles to explore the colorful work of performance artist Mary Younakof and her 343 Dresses project.

Video Transcription:

I was seeing a lot of just colored buildings, and that’s what kind of made me interested.

I thought, “God, how could I merge this

Some of the buildings were just spectacular, like lavender, purple, like wacky colors.

These wires are representing where each dress will hang.

And I’ve just numbered them, so you can really get the breadth of the project.

It’ll be all about color.

It’ll be like an abstract work of art.

‘Cause you’re seeing just color, and color combinations, kind of all hanging together.

In the reds, I go from light to dark, and the next one goes from dark to light, and the next one, light to dark.

Then I got to reds, and when I got to the reds, it was like, “Oh, God, it’s nice being in red.”

And then I started to miss the pink.

I like the attention you were getting.

No, no; it was -- there was certain colors that were so like bubblegum, this rich, beautiful color.

I’m like, “I kinda wanna wear that pink again." I was starting to yearn, the color that I had kinda passed through, so quickly.

And then I went to oranges, and oranges were amazing, ‘cause I was like a beacon.

It would be like -- I’d walk in, and people would come up to me, and they’d wanna touch me, and go, “That color.”