Sunday, August 22, 2010

Dissolvable garment:

My garment idea stemmed from the idea I used in the community dress (which I didn’t get to add in because of time constraints) using a lining – that is personal to the wearer. As I am looking at the uniformity aspect I wanted to have this hidden element in the clothing that could be different for everyone – giving everyone a character or personality back and still keeping the uniform façade.

These shorts will have a dissolvable waistband and the shorts will fall into a pair of pants, which will have a colourful/textured lining. The outside of the pants (before the dissolving) will have the same bleak appearance as the shirts do.

I would love to create 3 again to tie in with the community dress but I am not sure whether this is viable.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

The Burial Garment




The continual ‘community’ dress is created with a under and overgarment, the undergarment being the continual garment that can be worn by many people at once and the over garment is a uniform type shirt which keeps everyone systematic in dress.

- In this garment there is 5 different textiles, 3 fusing and 3 ways of fastening. This will help generate ideas and create a platform for designing a collection.

- The undergarment is made up of mainly synthetics in hope to find this part of the garment still in tack keeping the continuity in the clothing.

The main dress piece: polyester

The sleeves: wool/polyester blend

The uniform shirts (3)

Each shirt is made up of a different natural fibre composition, different fastening and different type of fusing.

1. Silk/cotton blend with light weight fusing, plastic buttons and buttonholes

2. Cotton (cheesecloth) with velco opening and thick fusing

3. 100% linen with snap lock fastenings and sew-in tailors fusing

These shirts where also overlocked with 100% polyester thread and sewn with 100% cotton thread. The side seams were hand sewn with 100% Nylon thread.


Some documentation of the garment being constructed:



Some documentation of the burial site and garment:





Lupines’ were planted with the linen shirt, these are a very fast growing seed that hopefully will interact with the linen during the month it is buried.

I also used Lime in the burial which was used in mass graves to help bodies break down.. hopefully this will work to break down the different fabrics within my garment.

Organic garden fertilizer was also used on the silk/cotton blend shirt – this will be interesting to see if this reacts with the undergarment or the shirt. There is also a tomato plant being planted over this shirt – hopefully this will have time to interact with the garment!

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Memories of the Khmer Rouge regime


Toul Sleng - S-21
Images of slaves with their number were taken, there also is many images at this site now of the slaves after torture



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Some of my images from Toul Sleng or 'S-21'

These were some of the individual cells created at the primary school - turned prison. There were mass torture rooms which were larger, these individual cells and then large rooms turned into box-like cells (about 1x2mt) to keep slaves in for most of the time while they were not working.



The grave site within Toul Sleng

Some Imagery from the Killing fields..
Then:
http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/07/interview-cambodia-genocide-memories.html

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Now:


Bones and clothing rise to the surface at the Killing fields still today...
http://www.davidmetraux.com/cambodia.html