The Grass is Singing

Collar
The Grass is Singing

Comic t-shirt

I painted this t-shirt in comic style for a friend who looooooves comics.

Working for G.O.O.D.

These T-shirts were made for my sister and her partner to wear when they go to Secret Cinema next weekend. G.O.O.D. is the name of a fictional corporation which we suspect might have a hidden agenda.



http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/what-s-on/film-reviews/can_you_guess_secret_cinema_s_next_exploit_find_out_first_hand_tickets_on_sale_now_1_1996461

Moth's eye

Moth's eye

Good nourishing manure

Glowing

Glow

Spring

This is the wire from the back of my sketchbook.
I think it looks strangely organic

Like an insect, caterpillar or ribcage

And makes satisfying repeat patterns

Wrapped

Wrapping of assignment 3
Fabric manipulation

Back of wrapping

Savage Beauty

Spine Corset 'Untitled'
S/S 1998










Spines are weird and fascinating in themselves.
Playful.
See C de Moncheaux



Today I was surfing and found myself at the Met Museum page about Savage Beauty - about the work of Alexander McQueen.http://blog.metmuseum.org/alexandermcqueen/about/.

Eshu
A/W 200-1
Yellow glass beads and horsehair skirt










The way this looks like lichen on an old tree.
You can imaging the different and interesting attractive way this skirt might move.



These pictures are all of clothes designed by him which caught my attention.

It's a jungle out there ensemble
A/W 1997
Brown leather, bleached linen, taxidermy crocodile










The bubble effect is weird and different.
In fact the whole thing is different in a very creative human way.



I am fascinated by the 'dark romantic' side of them, that is slightly creepy at the same time as being beautiful. 

Voss ensemble
S/S 2001
Oyster shells
Silk coat from Japanese screen print








Oysters are beautiful and weird in the way that many of McQueen's clothes are.

And by their use of natural materials which work, but are not usually associated with clothes.

Oyster dress
S/S 2003










It's the fantastic layers and layers of fragile fabric in the skirt that attracts me. You can practically feel that it would be just like touching an oyster shell only warmer and softer.



And by the way he was able to produce effects that I have tried and so far failed at.

Sabre tooth nose turbines

Nose turbines from a sabre tooth cat skull at the Natural History Museum

Amin Phillips Ghana Print

 

Root fall

Made using found fabrics

IDEA FOR THE DAY:

Use a similar idea to make a triangular hanging to cover the wall under the stairs, as if the banisters were the extensions upward of the root-like wavy lines.

They could be padded. The horizontal movement would have to relate to the ends of the stair treads.