Fashion & Textiles

 During the Fashion and Textiles taster project we were required to create collage-like pieces using different tetures and media. At first we did this on a smaller scale using only neutral backgrounds with black and white. To gain inspiration for our pieces we looked at the images we had from the Hepworth Gallery Visit and YSP visit. I feel that some of my smaller pieces worked better than others, just because i think that as i experimetned more with different media and shapes i began to make better pieces.

 Then we moved on to more large scale work. We had to choose two colours and take inspiration from the work we had just done. I chose blue and red because although the two colours can be seen as quite similar they also contrast really well and neither stands out more than the other. Using the materials such as the cardboard and the plastic bags was something i really enjoyed. I liked using the shapes that i could create from them but also the shapes that were already there like slots, handles and cut-outs. I also liked experimenting with layering and the placement of the colour against the white.

 We then moved on to working in pairs to create a much larger scale piece. Taking bits from the work that we had both done we had to bring all our ideas together and put all the techniques we had learnt into making a joint piece. We decided to take the detail and spacing of my work and the one extra colour and much more busier layout of my partners work and bring them together. This meant adding the yellow which at first seemed to take over the whole piece and distract your attention form the rest of it, but after careful consideration and re-assessment of the piece as a whole we pulled it together into something i believe worked really well.

Lastly we made our work into something that could be worn. We didnt necessarily want ours to look like an item of clothing, we just wanted to make it to fit the model and what we created turned out to be quite an abstract, geometric piece. I personally think that the finished product looked quite tribal in a way and disguised the shape of the body, i also think it looked like the kind of dress that may be seen in a pantomime or something similar. It was interesting to see how the colours looked when worn, the way that we had placed it happened to make the front of the garment blue and the back red with the yellow showing down one side. In a way it seemed to look like three different garments just by looking at it from different angles.

Although i enjoyed the start of the project, i wasnt so keen on the last part of making our piece into something to be worn.