Fashion - Body Supported Structures Relating To Townscape.
BODY SUPPORTED STRUCTURES RESEARCH.
Initial ideas for this person were looking at the using of materials in the traditional construction of buildings as part of a formulae for clothing or rather as attachment to supporting garments. They were particularly influenced by the building site paintings of Frank Auerbach who was working in London after the second world war and pushing paint into new directions. He was using heavy dense thick layers of paint to simulate an excavation from the ground from which was emerging a new life, a new London of modern forms out of the debris and detritus of the rubble strewn city. They were interested in the basic elements from which a final construction began or the creation of modernist forms from traditional materials.
They used this as a starting point to explore ideas within the module further. Then, they ultimately abandoned this idea as they wanted to push themselves more from a personal perspective and explore thoughts about the body as a platform for statement rather than a particular desire to refine a certain shape, but for them wouldn’t challenge them enough personally to create something they felt was new and deliverable. They thought they had a deeper set of statements they wanted to make and so they explored ideas further over the coming days. They researched closely the work of several artists who were already experimenting with the body in innovative ways.
These images were created using 3D modelling software and hand painting textures through photoshop layers, to show what they could make and build out of old materials from buildings and around the cities and towns.
The outer mesh represents a half protective covering. The body was to use a tyre (wheel like) centre radiating out to denser wire across the upper ribs, the eye mask was cut rubber and the body suit was material structured together designed to look like brick or concrete overlapping.
Full suit made as described above using the same principle of construction.
Here they were using more materials to embellish and trying to show various other materials such as pavement and grids together with rust as a form of face mask.
The idea was evolving into using barbed wire and heavier elements such as the iron chest centre which represented a rivet. The boots were made of rubber tire wheels.
They pushed the idea out to try and further explore pipes and other building materials to add additional sculptural form to the supporting body. The square grid would have been an overlapping tunic with hood and the face covered and sprayed over to form a sealed mask.
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