After mind mapping and researching this weekend I had some initial ideas which evolved around the idea of found objects as I touched on this in my interior project and wanted to take this futher. I had a little look in the library and found and incredible book called Everything We Touch by Paula Zuccotti. IT IS AMAZING. The whole concept is brilliant and truly intriguing. I think I am intrigued by it because it explores humans in a specific way just by looking at their objects which gives a small insight into their everyday life, it feels like you understand and know the person just by looking at the gorgeous photo of the objects laid on the white back drop. The photos are taken with so much care and are considered well which has inspired me to do a similar thing to get my fashion project started.
In the group crit today, Nick also liked the book and made me realise the different ways the objects were photographed. Some are in a grid format, some in a more collaged fashion. I love how all the objects are photographed together in one go which gives you a bigger picture and a different insight compared to if they were photographed individually.
Nick and the others also seemed excited about my initial ideas. He mentioned about artists who dismantle and crush found objects and things the only exist in the moment? He also said about photographing my personal items together in one go but also trying to photograph then individually. I was unsure how I would transfer these drawings (or photographs) into designs for fashion. Nick mentioned about photographing my clothes against a white background then printing these onto another piece of clothing and skewing it slightly so it was shifted out of place, which I thought was interesting. I could tape my objects to walls or tape outfits onto walls or even project an outfit onto somebody. Which could be interesting for final designs. I said that I wanted to tell a narrative in my work- a bit like the book I was inspired by. Some peers in the group mentioned about asking people about their belongings or even asking a certain amount of people what they had in their pockets. Nick mentioned that this could narrow down the path of my project which I completely understood when he said this. As most people don't have important, meaningful objects in their pockets these days, so I would end up with snotty tissues, pennies and old receipts. I still want to develop the idea of getting others involved (as almost a human experiment), I just need to think further on this idea.
To get me started though I will begin photographing my personal objects in a taxonomy style, looking at different combinations of objects creating collections of colour, material and function. Nick also mentioned about using things as stencils as resist (like the bi product of a sticker book) and using spray paint to get the negative b. I will use this concept and try to think of doing this with objects that I have.