UP THE HILL BACKWARDS

By PAP Magazine Editorial

A face emerges through overlapping planes of transparent vinyl and crimson fishnet, hands pulling the plastic taut across the frame. The red of the lips and the red of the mesh bleed into one another, erasing the boundary between makeup and material. The studio setting is wrapped in industrial clear sheeting, white walls punctuated by sharp red tape and a numeral 1 in halftone print. Black quilted outerwear and a textured knit skirt are swathed in translucent layers that ripple and distort the silhouette in motion, while crumpled vinyl sheeting carpets the floor in shimmering folds. Makeup centers on saturated red tones around the mouth and eyes, vivid even through the mesh and plastic veils. This editorial reframes construction-site materials as beauty apparatus, holding protection and exposure, concealment and revelation in simultaneous tension.