Final Creative Response

CREATIVE RESPONSE

By looking at artists instead of fashion designers I've learnt a lot more about how the body can be covered to reflect a meaning or a feeling. I know now that I don't want to create a traditional item of clothing for my creative response to the project, but more of a wearable sculpture.

I started thinking about how I could make clothing that explores showing personality in a visual way

Although clothes are apparently a method of expressing our personalities and feelings,

women often take it as their role to stay strong and resolute at all times

A great deal of women use clothes alongside make-up to put on a cheerful face and conceal any stress they may be facing.

Being dressed in heavy weighted clothing would contort the body into physically showing the strain they’re under.

I was inspired by my mum who like many other women, keeps any negative emotions hidden.

Each sack will be weighted, and printed with a pattern that links to clothing from a certain time or event in my mums life.

The weighted balls are a visual representation of feeling emotionally dragged down.

Combining performance with clothing will hopefully lead to a better understanding of clothing and it’s possibilities.

A Short Story that relates well  - Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut

PATTERNS FOR EACH OF THE SEGMENTS

The patterns are representative of clothing my mother found most memorable about each of the burdens.

I decided not to use these patterns after contemplating how the balls would relate to the audience. The sculpture had become less personal and I was aiming for more general effect and the patterns would complicate this.