Quarantined in Australia, David Marriott used the paper bags his food was delivered in for his costume and horse.
The following written content by Ann W. Schmidt
This man certainly “saddled up” to make the best of his two-week quarantine.
David Marriott, an art director from Sydney, Australia, thought he might take up juggling and spend his quarantine listening to music. Instead, he ended up turning himself into a “paper cowboy” using brown paper bags to make a costume — and a paper horse named Russell.
Marriott had traveled to the U.K. after his father died unexpectedly in February from COVID-19, The Guardian reported.
After quarantining in the U.K. before the funeral, Marriott expected another “long two weeks” on his way back into Australia, so he bought himself a portable speaker and juggling balls, he told The Guardian.
However, just three days into his quarantine in a hotel in Brisbane, Australia, he found inspiration from his lunch — at least, the brown paper bowl holding his lunch.
“I thought, that’s a hat, if I add some brim to it,” Marriott told The Guardian. “That was the beginning of the cowboy, and the vest and the chaps came naturally.”
Marriott made the rest of his costume out of the brown paper bags that his meals were delivered in, according to the newspaper.
Once his costume was done, Marriott told Australia’s ABC Radio Brisbane that he realized he needed friends.
“I found in my cupboard an ironing board and I dragged it out and put a desk lamp on it and I thought, ‘My God, there we go — there’s the skeleton of a horse,’” Marriott told the station. Read more from FN
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