Research: Rogers and Hammerstein's Favourite Things and Holiday Watching

 

I found this montage of Sound of Music Damask somewhere down an internet rabbit hole.

This image shows the original costumes from the Film made from the curtain Damask print textiles.

This is an installation by the artist Mimosa Echard. Her work is messy and playful but contains darker materials like pharmaceuticals and rotting foodstuffs. The glue like material that holds her panels together is gruesome and beautiful, the same can be said for the girlie colourways in the work.

This artist is literally wearing a curtain.

I was thinking about the transfiguration of curtain to garment, which is something I have done before, but perhaps making the reverse. A curtain from garments. Would I use a colour inspired from the sound of music, or a particular garment. This had me thinking about the T-shirt, and specifically band/music t-shirts. This came up on a google search. Maybe I could make curtains from preowned band T-shirts.

The artist Caroline Broadhead made this work around the net curtain. People peep from the Instead of using an actual t-shirt

I couldn't find an outlet for the t-shirt or garment idea that felt complete or fully realised to me, or perhaps that would bring me enjoyment from the making so I felt that an outline - maybe a dot-to-dot cut out t0-shirt to reference the making of clothes would work to my tendencies. I felt that a beaded outline would be very satisfying and also sparkle, which I feel, we all need.

Knitted patchwork

Patchwork which suggests the textiles are from something special to the artist. I like the use of traditional and sort of messy work with digital printing.

In the first part of the semester I was referencing doodle patterns that I made when i was a teenager, and bizarrely this style of design is popping up all over the place. It also has similarities to traditional Damask design, so potentially I could create my own Damask print with my doodles.

Panels with a basic cut-out style garment attached

Julia Kwon

I want to include text in my outcome, and gave this some thought, will this reference a typical band t-shirt font, will I create my own font perhaps referencing my doodle style, will this be painted or beaded or embroidered? Will this be hand embroidered or machine embroidered? What thread will I use. Will it be neon, or metallic. 

 

Julia Kwon

Panels, of differing sizes, depths, tonal.

An unknown patchwork which I don’t necessarily think is successful but is worth looking at thinking about scale of work, print, colour use, pattern balance etc.

Justin Morin literally makes curtains. Simple image and concept, what do the colours mean or say?

 

Another Caroline Broadhead piece showcasing her exceptional beadwork. She has created a glittering tromp-l'oeil effect with a bead mesh, fabulous. I am not thinking about beading a tromp l’oeil T-shirt, but we should consider all possible outcomes for an image. I am leaning towards a cut out pattern , but if I were to make panels and depth I could potentially utilise different techniques.

I am referencing Shona Heath because I am interested in her background in print and painting and her transition into set design which she wasn’t expecting. This translates into conceptual and illustrative set design which rather than referencing interior design etc, derives inspiration from art history.

https://www.fitstruetosize.com/sculptor-jewellery-maker-rosie-grace-ward-talks-intersection-between-art-fashion/

https://www.frieze.com/article/we-need-embrace-gloom-artist-rosie-grace-ward-environmental-apocalypse

Heaven by Marc Jacobs. Well done Mark, he has created hyper desirable clothing for the Gen-Z/Millenial market. I think this set design is interesting, it isn’t tendy mid-century modern, but grubby Nan’s (and maybe Nan’s who were Nan’s in the 90s?) bedroom. Those thick pile carpets that would hold dust and grime and stinks. This is I suppose what is running through my mind with the mix of the Sound of Music set and Damask print and y2k nostalgia driven 2020s cool clothing. Am I cynical about this, yes, am I therefore cynical about the piece I am about to create, yes probably, but I suppose it feels right to me and feels like what I should make, and I suppose other people are on the same page as me. 

Artists can be made to feel that things should be new and original, or maybe feel that inside, and yet music really runs through very obvious (to me?!) trends.

Holiday Watching and Reading:

Arena Cindy Sherman BBC - 

https://youtu.be/KMrkYMKMsv4 Shona Heath - set designer

Adam Curtis: need to take this with a bit of a pinch of salt but it really helps you to think more broadly and how a small thing might have massive global effects. Also power corrupts, of course.