24. BP experimentation Week 7

15th Sept

Experimentation:

3D Variation of Chevrons

Placement Consideration

Original dress from Topshop Unique

Subtle print on silk chiffon dress, makes fabric look a little structured. Juxtaposing hard lines with soft fabrics.

25. Cyclists

23rd Sept






photos via Copenhagen Bicycles and NY Times
Bicycle History

26. Conceptualising

25th Sept

Met my lecturer last morning to get some help, as I've been doing other work and I always feel like I need to be guided. I know it's very bad, but I'm glad I did what I had to do to get back on track.
I came up with the phrase "to feel free" as the reason why I ♥ cycling, and then we thought about what feeling free is.
"to feel free" ≠ to be free. Although when one is physically free, he most probably feels free, but one might feel free for a while even though they're not really freed.
The main thing I want to be freed of is from my mother's control. I drew up this mind map. I was afraid of writing down "my mother", because it brings about lots of nasty stuff and I am worried about what others might think but Tang said I should be honest if I want to get the message across.

These are the ways in which free applies to my concept
free
–adjective

1.	enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.

7.clear of obstructions or obstacles, as a road or corridor: The highway is now free of fallen rock.

9.	exempt or released from something specified that controls, restrains, burdens, etc. (usually fol. by from or of): free from worry; free of taxes.

10.	having immunity or being safe (usually fol. by from): free from danger.

I always feel like leaving home. I've told myself that I need to get out of this house when I make my own cash. I live in a mad house. My life is partially under control of my mother, since I am unable to get through life on my own for monetary reasons. She has the upper hand in making my days hell, I need to put up with her erratic, selfish behaviour, but I am not her lover, I am not her mum. Her narcisstic behaviour makes me pull my hair and makes me upset. It gets in the way of my work, and of my social life. I feel like I've been deprived of good family relations. I feel abnormal, and I am really afraid of turning out like her. I can't wait for the day when I can leave for good, and never come back to this period.
articles.
one Discovery Health
"The fear of growing up to be like one's mother has long been so common among Western women that it has a name — matrophobia."
two realsimple.com
"She’s your mother. Or she’s your daughter. (And, frankly, sometimes it seems like she has this backward.)"

27. Trying to Capture Freedom

5th Oct

29. Garment Ideas

6th Oct
Ethereal: adj. light, airy, or tenuous

28. Concept

6th Sept

This is my concept, it was a mere doodle 

when I sat down to think about this project

and what it means to me.

 Emma says its a great picture.

I love it

because ive used a picture of a girl riding her bike-

which represents me

and all the words around her are her thoughts

they fill up all of her mind.

30. Reference to Contemporary Fashion

6th Oct

Research on contemporary fashion is has a recurring essence of freedom in the collections.

Jil Sander SS08
transparency, fluidity, layers, lightness,bi or tri-coloured




Chloe SS08
painterly, lightness, opaque, parti-coloured

31. Further Reading

8th Oct

Freedom's Principles

freedom is a state of mind. perception is relative.

How do I translate this state of mind into a physical object/print/garment?

32. Drawing the Horse, Thinking about Freedom

9th Oct

I drew horse faces and tried figuring how  happy horse looks like but none of them turned out well.

I've drawn more horses from side view and tried making them look like

 their running.. 

i mean galloping,

or at least they aren't standing still.

I tried it with paints

with cord which i think turned out a mess

in pencil- going in circles to represent the untangling of everything in my mind

from chaos to freedom

by accident, while photographing my works with the imac camera on photobooth,

i realized that the effect my of table lamp on the artworks was a brilliant effect.

I played around with it, moving the light source from the front of the artwork, to the back.

the light shining through the paper was beautiful and I though some kind of ombre effect would be a lovely addition to my otherwise dull horses. 

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light from the back

light from the top

directing the lamp to the artwork from the back

trying out the different effects on photobooth

I thought about how I could translate my idea of lightness and translucency

I thought about flipbooks, old fashioned flip toys that you put the stick between your hands and rotate it by rolling it as if you were warming up your hands.. it looks something like this: 

I thought it would be great of my final designs have got a couple of layers of fabric and the same or similar image printed on them and printed one on top of the other.

The movement of the body would affect the image of the horse and it would appear as if it was moving since the layer moves away, or to the sides repeatedly as the wearer moves around. 

I got my artwork printed on multiple pieces of transparencies to test the idea.

33. Making Moodboard

9th Oct
tried capturing the sunset from the view of my window at about 6.45am because I thought sunset represents freedom well. I thought of freedom as escaping from home early in the morning.

blue horses galloping gallop gallop into "freedom"