The past 2 weeks I have been concentrating on getting my garment to the final stage of development. I have learned a lot about my processes, and the time I need to allocate myself in the future.
This week everything has begun to take shape, and after experiementing with much moire text on the multi-head, I have been able to explore placement of stitch on the garment, by pinning samples to the piece. I'm realising the importance of placement with my stitch work; although I want the piece to be heavily embelished, I do not want my narratives to get lost in an over-busy garment.
In our 4-week review this week the tutors and our peers posed some challenging questions that I must consider before developing my practicew further. Questions concerning where my work sits in a larger context, as well as where I am gathering my research for garments; Laura pointed out that even though I'm producing work for a gallery context, I can't ignore the generations of fashion to come before hand. I think I have to reconsider my research in future projects; if I am to use garments as a vechile for narratives, wear-able or not I can noit ignore the history of a garment, as 'nothing is created in a vaccum'.
Following an impromtu de-briefing with Mark a few days after the review, he questioned if I should even worry about garments at this stage; I don't want to limit myself and waste time of my final year worrying about pattern cutting etc, and following the end of this mini-project I need to focus on generating immense amounts of drawing, and then play with abstract forms and scales which are not neccisarly directed to the body.
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