Optical Illusions

So, I've been away for quite a while and I feel it's only fair to update my blog with the various antics that have been happening as I've been gone.

Finally finished my first year at The Nottingham Trent University with great experiences of the university as a whole but brilliant ones with the course in particular. My last project was the Colour Project, which I based on all things optical and illusional. My initial research led me to extensive work with print design and kaleidoscope effects embedded into my own photography. With regarded to silhouettes, however, I turned to simplistic and rather geometric shapes with structured finishes. This then related to a combination of structured and malleable fabrics, creating a juxtaposition within the outfit as a whole.

NTU White Project, 'Organic Architecture'

 These are the final photographs from my White Project at NTU. I took my inspiration from 'Organic Architecture' which consists of elements such as nature, natural structures, insects and plants. Through my research I found that through natural structures I related it a lot to protection and the concept of armoury for living things. For instance the bark of a tree offers protection to it as a shell on an insect would. I wanted to create an ideal that the clothes we wear act as a form of protection to our soft and fragile bodies.




From this I then thought of how an insect would have an inner body and then an exoskeleton on the outside. I sourced a stiff Organdie to become my human's 'exoskeleton' and a soft bleached Calico to become the tangible and soft innards.