Notes on time.
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Notes on Time is my senior thesis collection at the Savannah College of Art and Design that is still in progress. The sum of eight months of work and four years of education, it looks at how the passage of time has physical impacts, explored in the context of celebrating the working class.
Key imagery and inspirations come from August Sander's People of the 20th Century, photography by Ansel Adams, Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, and Dorthea Lange, and wabi sabi philosophies. The process and garments are a result of my grappling with the inextricable connections between the grandness of God's creation, the detrimental affects of nature on physical objects over time and use, and the human fight to add life back to those physical objects out of both necessity and creativity. Beauty, destruction, and repair all tied together. It is built to explore these topics through every aspect of the garments and garment making processes, meant to be thoroughly examined and read into. Eight months has given me the opportunity to delve into every detail of the process and the outcome. This page aims to represent at least a portion of the work that went into creating Notes on Time. |
Portfolio book
Cyanotype Solar Dyeing
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This captures some of the process of using manuals and documents from the 1930's to transform them into a fabric-like material. The paper is first painted with cyanotype solution, then laid in sun and shadow to capture UV rays. It is then rinsed and dried. Next it is bleached and toned with natural dyes and once again rinsed and dried. Finally it is coated with a gel made from konyaku starch (like is used on traditional Japanese paper garments), dried and crumpled. Finally the pieces can be attached together to form fabric.
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deconstruction experimentations
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One of the key elements of Notes on TIme is the use of garments from around the 30's, unpicked at the seams to show the sun bleaching and marks that they have collected over years of use. Much experimentation needed to happen to discover the process I would use to create garments with them, and even after that was solved, there was more experimentation to use that process successfully. This gallery shows some of the unused ideas tested and some of the process of creating the pieces.
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