Costume? Me? I can't sew!

After the primer task, which I should have posted before the post I am creating now and which I would love to post anyway later (however, we know how disorganised I am - probably will never post that in my life), we got briefed today on our new project - we are supposed to create a costume. 

Non-human representation of our primary needs, the summary of ourselves, streamlined into wearable 3D form. 

Alright! I can't use the needle - that's not the problem! As I am highly motived since we started new term, I want to blow up everyone's mind with my project this time.

This post is the starter pack. An organisation of ideas! 

Aims:

- simple form, not overdone by mindlessly creation in the heat of a deadline

- combination between the sculpture and the costume

- using physical effects, such as smoke, reflection
- being proud of your work, this time!

I try not to get attracted by the tons of inspiration which we were loaded in at today's brief - as my general love for creation absorb too much and too quickly - I try to streamline myself into specific path of thinking.

Inspiration:

Hussein Chalayan:

Visual chunks I find useful: hellium, costume absorbing the space, simplicity of form

Oskar Schlemmer and his Ballet:

Visual chunks I find useful: light as the medium, shade as the outcome

Visual chunks I find useful: geometric forms, beautiful in their simplicity, minimalistic forms with a massive expression

(on the left Schlemmer's design - on the right David Bowie in Kansai Yamamoto's design apparently inspired by Bauhaus - good to know)

Visual chunks I find useful: again, simplicity of the geometric form, but also blown up form of the leggins - making them larger gave them expression of which I look foward to as well!

Visual chunks I find useful: geometry, geometry, geometry - let's stay simple, but beautifully creative!

Michał Smandek:

Visual chunks I find useful: simple form, untold story of a mirror, dissorted reflection, texture

Visual chunks I find useful: interpretation of a smoke, brilliant yet simple idea, colour

Visual chunks I find useful: simple form, yet unrealistic, black contrasting with white, 

The last artist did not design any costumes - although, I am highly attracted by the physical phenomenons appearing in his work - it is not just the still form, made of medium which you can touch - but I am an idiot and I did not post any of his work, where you can actually see the physic working - therefore I will sent you here, as Michał Smandek is definitely an artist you should look up to. 

Final thoughts:
I already started designing my costume and despite the fact I do not have much projects, I managed to find more or less the aesthetique I want to dig into. 

Mirror, smoke, simple forms, lack of plastic feeling and colour. 

My best designs so far:

I want to use the mirror as I symbol of myself - having a mirror is one of my primary needs, but on the other hand, I wish I could not look into it at all - basically, as I have complexes, I want to use the mirror in the reverse meaning - as it is the part of the 'face' of the costume, it could never reflect me, but what I am surrounded with - people who I love, for example. I want my costume to be twice as big as average height of a human, with the mirror 'looking down' on people below. They could look up and see themselves - it is connected with myself feeling always a bit apart from reality, as my mom says: head always twenty feet above the ground. I wish that smoke would appear there too - it would steal the space around the costume. It is also symbol of evanescence to me - as I constantly feel how the moments slip out of my hands. 

Obviously, I need to develop my idea more. Collect materials.
Not get stressed!


Keep myself creative. 

Stop-frame animation - first attempt!

Yesterday I had a great opportunity to attempt the Stop-Frame Animation Workshops, along with Maya and Anna.
The really nice gentleman who name I obviously forgot, gave us 20 minutes to play with the software (called DRAGON! - sounds almighty, doesn't it?), this is what we came up with in a panicking rush of a creative cloud of inspiration.

Well, the plotline is easy - there is a white fox, sparkly one, taking a walk, falling down, sun becomes a snitch, it is hard to choose love's colour, everything blows up and hand of God wipes this miserable World out.
No, it's not really a plotline - the action in our animation is pure creation on its own, being just the decisions made quickly which we documented on the go, without hestitation. Anyway, we had fun.
Afterall, we posted the movie all over our social media.


I really hope I would use this techique someday in my future projects - the simplicity of it appeals to me strongly.