Continuing on from Mondays class, we had to take our processes that were discussed in class and make a garment from our definition. I went back to some of my notes from class and decided to go with the narrative process using the Oblique Strategies card. The card I was given was 'Faced with a choice to do both". My definition was something that conceals and/or highlights the body'.
The card just clicked in with my definition so I started to scribble anything that related to that on my note pad. I played around with the idea of doing 'both';trying to highlight and conceal the body.
Highlighting what's concealed, concealing what's highlighted.
The image above shows the ideas I worked through.
I wasn't very happy with the execution of the process. The slide show is some pics I took.
1. I wanted to highlight whats concealed. So I chose aluminium foil, and covered it with a simple white knit fabric. I cut the knit so that I was highlighting the foil on the body.
2. I felt like the outcome didn't really explore the process well enough, it looked like a school project.
The slide show was from yesterday's class activity. We had a list of materials and I brought in foil, rice, soap and cups. When Adele told us that we had to replicate our garment/process with the materials everyone was worried. Sometimes these excercises will work from the start or they just won't seem to gel. I tried to play around with the materials but it was really difficult to get my head around.
My most successful material was the first one, the plastic cups. I joined them all together using a hot glue gun and then tried to 'highlight' the inside (or the body if someone was wearing the garment) by melting holes with the gun.
The exercises allowed me to think more about how the material can dictate your process. When your used to working with fabric it's so frustrating to try and construct something a fabric that doesn't have the same malleability.
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