Trompe-l'œil

'Tricks of the Light' - sign from Acmi's 'Eyes, Lies & Illusions' exhibition from nov 06-Feb 07.

This exhibition still inspires me today - the way


Crowd 2006 by ENESS: 'a suspended, disembodied community of eyeballs that gaze out inquisitively at the viewer, watching and tracking every movement'

(Exhibited as part of Acmi's 'Eyes, Lies & Illusions' nov 06-feb 07)

Kasia Coleman

19th Century marble bust with faux-transparent veil, Bankfield Museum.

Now for some Schiaparelli inspired bits & bobs:

Longchamp questions the status of the 'It' Bag? (perhaps by creating a new 'It' bag)

Fendi Wedge

Comme Des Garcons Fall 2009. Kuwakabo described this collection as 'a wonderland where nothing is as it seems'.

"You have to make things stronger than truth".

We are constantly decieved by the media, society, ourselves, etc, etc.

What could one be lead to believe about the material/immaterial?

My favorite characters from Sesame St are these aliens. They appear, talk gibberish, then disappear.

My first favourite website ever was Snopes, a catalogue of urban legends. It taught me about highly advanced web design, finding the lols in everything, etc. The ghost stories and chain letters are especially entertaining. I remember the first time I received a chain letter I was delighted. It was hand-written. They then began to flood my inbox during early high school. I love the combination of new technology and bizarre superstition. But seriously, If you don't continue reading this blog a ghost named Mary wearing a tailored jacket will appear before you and kill you in approximately 10 seconds.

And a final note on illusions:

Without without without

without a body?

without more than 4 followers?

haha!

Body leaving the jacket?

Trial with fairy floss, pom poms, cotton wool and string:

Thinking about images I could use/create for my publication and about 'light' materials I could use for prototypes... Quite a bit of post-production went into this image! But it could still use more. @_@ I will post some other images from this series (no photoshop!) soon. I like building things, setting up images, and then slightly fixing them up on photoshop. This quick way of working fits into my 'spontaneous alternatives' idea for the studio, where ideas are quickly played out and then documented. The focus here is on experimentation and documentation as the key outcome...

Will experiement next time with fresh fairy floss in the hope of getting a fluffy texture. I like light textures and they are really relevant to the ideas I am playing with. I wanted to body and jacket to be photographed as one entity - perhaps next time I will play with different colours for body/spirit or join the jacket and spirit into one solid (distorted?) shape.

Mould preview...

I've been sewing little pom-poms to the jacket in an attempt to disguise sections

of the jacket (eg. the lapel). I was lucky enough to find pom-poms that were

discoloured in tea/peachy tones (current favourite).

I really enjoy hand-sewing and find it very relaxing. Blake informed me last week

about the Militant Guild of Rural Tailors - which interested me because I love

conspiracy theories and sewing very much!

Unfortunately RPTG appears to be a hoax(?). However, the ideas about an inherent sprituality in hand-sewing interested me.

I was reading about the Baha'i Faith recently and I thought it was interesting that Monasticism is banned within the religion. Instead, work is considered a form of worship.

I have really enjoyed using the pom poms to build up a form. It got me thinking

about the idea of building a form for some of my final outcomes - as opposed to

pattern making?

.......................................................................................^^^photobooth pom-poms^^^

Side note: I've also been looking at the idea of leaving the body and also possession of the body.
Below are dolls made for the Voodou Lwa Ezili Danto (Erzulie Dantor). She loves being

given dolls which in turn 'speak' for her. Objects representing beings who are not 'physical/material':

Photographing the jacket trial 2 - jacket in motion

In trial 2 I set up a tripod, stood on top of my table and dropped the jacket into the camera's line of vision while the timer was set to go off. These were my most successful images from that trial. I like them more than the first images because they are much more ambiguous and seem to capture the jacket as though it is alive.

Conjuring:

My two favourite images. The picture on the right is cropped from the image above:

Something about this arrangement is really aesthetically pleasing to me. Infinite ghost

jackets = strangely calming:

Photographing the jacket

After I purchased the jacket early in the semester I wore it regularly - but I soon discovered that I liked documenting the jacket without the body. This was great because of how it related to my focus for the rest of the studio. I really like the idea of the jacket having it's own life-force. The photography aspect of this project is great for me as I really like taking photos and value the time I have experimenting with documentation of the object.

I decided to stuff the jacket full of material - it allowed the jacket to adopt a body-like but I wanted the photos to be slightly ambiguous. I was inspired by the lining 2d class where I decided to create enough lining to fill the jacket/render it almost impossible for a body to wear.

Music without human bodies

One of the most amazing & inspirational things I've ever seen! It sends a shiver down my spine.