Our brief this term is called Opposition (I may have mentioned this in my last blog post) and It's very much self directed. A teaching/working concept I have struggled with due to my own lack of skills and knowledge in fashion, design and textiles. My tutors are always on hand and they are still teaching us and supporting us but we are being set free to explore our own creativity and see where it takes us. It's something I'm embracing and I'm excited to see where my creativity takes me!
Researching about Opposition I was quickly taken with two subjects-War/Politics and Astronomical Opposition. From my research I learnt that Astronomy is quite on trend at present and It's also something that interests me a lot. I've been enjoying astrophotography and I thought I could incorporate some of my own photographs. I found an awesome astrological manipulated image on Pinterest and my design development kicked off from there. I also found an actual astronomical symbol for Opposition..Everything really started to fall into place and I've been really focused on building this idea concept....Winner, Winner, Chicken dinner.
On a few occasions now, I have chatted with Rachel about the idea of growing crystals on fabric. Again this is something that really appeals to me and I could imagine creating a gown of grown crystals for a fashion shoot or something. I set myself a little challenge at home to grow some on a glove (I had lost its pair!) It seemed a shame to throw it away so I put it to good use...Check out the photo! After making up a heavily concentrated saline solution..I soaked the glove in it for 2 days and then let it dry out for 5 days. I was so pleased with the result. Its got my mind whizzing!
Photos are coming soon..I promise! I'm going to start blogging a couple of times a week. Break up the blogs into easy, readable and digested write ups, rather than one long post about the whole week. Anyway...Some piccies below.
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| Salt crystal Glove!!!! Amazing! |
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| Astro John...Outta Space. Peace |
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| Concept Board including my own image of The Milky Way |
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| Design for Oversized, conceptual Sweater with my image, printed on in the pposition symbol |
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| My Milky way photograph, manipulated, crystallized and put into Opposition symbol |
As I was quite poorly last week I didn't shoot my week 27 self portrait but I did manage to edit a couple of pictures from a workshop I attended some weeks back! You can check them out here on my Facebook page and I'm super excited to announce, We (@igblackcountry) will be announcing our first Instameet very soon...If you are interested then head on over to our Facebook page here or follow us on Instagram @igblackcountry to keep up to date.
Night Night folks xx
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