I must have been living a sheltered life because before tonight I had no clue who Leigh Bowery was and then I watched the documentary, The Legend of Leigh Bowery.
He was a fascinating performance artist in the 1980s and early 90s and made some of the most elaborate and mind-numbing cartoon like costumes that I have ever seen. So many of the costumes looked painful, but they were also simultaneously beautiful.
Like so many of the interesting gay male artists of that time, he died of AIDS in late 1994.
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