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aliens, and other creatures. "Sometimes I'm not building toward the body; I'm building away from the body. I'm making it not look like there's a human inside of it. I think that I've always said that my career is based on onions and I like to say, 'honor the onion.' I am always dealing with layers. So, when you have layers on a curve, you know that the outside layer is bigger than the inside layer; so [I] accommodate for that in my paern making. I start paerning the base layer but then I have to onion-ize it. I have to create things that get bigger and understand that's how physics happens." When we think of specialty costumes being made for production, we think of humanoids or a human in a huge alien/monster suit, but Dorothy worked on making costumes for Muppets Tonight which may be how she was prepared to make one of the smallest costumes seen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2's Baby Groot. "He's my favorite because most people know he's a CGI character; however, he's still created. He still has to be sculpted and made and a costume had to be made for him; I had to make two of them. One was made for the Groot puppet that was on set that the actors related to and could act against, and the other one went to the visual effects department with my paern, the fabrics, and notions so they could scan that and reassemble it in the computer." Dorothy explains that the notions components of Baby Groot's costume were made from "Christmas ribbon and charms that I cut up and turned inside out. My whole career is about using conventional things and using them in unconventional ways. Dorothy's last collection of work was done on all three seasons of Star Trek: Picard. She considers the work she's done on the costume pieces for the character Bjayzl from Season 1, the most glamorous work she's done. "Christine Bieselin Clark came to me and said, 'Dorothy, there's a new (Clockwise from top left) Detail of the back of Vox costume for Star Trek: Picard; Dorothy Bulac-Eriksen using her mallet to "onion" layers together; Dorothy adjusting tube placement on the original Borg Queen, played by Alice Krige. (opposite) Captain Vadic and Vox costumes on display at CDG 2023 panel. MOTIONPICTUREC O S T U M E R S .O R G 25