Fashion and Textiles rotation: Day 2

In the morning we were shown fashion pieces that have been inspired by artworks which illustrated how art work and fashion interlink and how fashion is a form of art. 

In preparation for this week we were asked to bring in our favourite piece of art work, be it a painting  photography, collage or sculpture. For my favourite piece I chose John Stezakers Mask XXXV. The reason I like this so much is because the strategic layering of the postcard over the old film still gives the impression that the image is a documentation of what is in the mind of the figure. Also with the content of the postcard image being of a cave leading onto a perhaps more picturesque landscape, the viewer gets the impression that cave entrance/exit leads on into another world, or one that is perhaps in the mind of the woman pictured.

 After the morning talk we were asked to make a "focus frame" out of two right angled strips of paper to focus on one section of our chosen piece art work at a time. From this we then had to recreate the different sections the picture in 3D using different techniques of folding and manipulating paper. For my maquettes, I created these...

I would have like to have done more if I had longer to do so but it was hard to think of 5 different 3D maquettes to recreate the image through as some parts of the image were more suitable for this activity and therefore the most attention was focused on these areas, for example the rough texture of the rock that makes up the cave in my picture. However there are only so many ideas that can taken from these areas of particular interest and therefore I found it difficult to think of new ideas.

We were then asked to recreate our little 3D maquettes multiple times in a range of bigger sizes.

After lunch we split into groups of three and each group was assigned a polystyrene mannequin. Given different key words, for example "architecture" and "fluid", we were instructed to use our different sized paper structures to pin onto the mannequin in different ways that best represented the key word. By doing this it were almost as if we were designing our own outfits or fashion artworks as a group.

After we experimented with our own enlarged and original maquettes, we had to move around the room doing the same but with different groups' maquettes. It was interesting to experiment and change the compositions of other peoples' creations on the figure.