Unphotographable

Overall, I feel much happier working in a pair with Beth. I know that we can communicate effectively with each other and I also know that she can be relied upon to work hard alongside myself.

Now that we had decided upon an idea, we felt that the best place to start would be to brainstorm all of the way that garments may be "unphotographable". Ideas include:

Reflection/glaring light

Change in state, colour, shape, form

Sensitivity to light

Contained/ Concealed/ Trapped

Time-limited fabrics

After brainstorming many, many ideas, we felt that it might be useful to start gathering ideas visually and decided to put together some boards of exisiting work to represent our idea clearly.

The first board represents the idea of encasing fabrics within something to protect them from being photographed. Experimentation with ice, gelatine and plastic will help us to determine the next step and help to establish what will work for us.

The second board (above) shows the idea of a garment/fabric being time limited in terms of its existence. We looked at the work of Maison Martin Margiela, 9/4/1615, a collection of garments that are exposed to mould and bacteria, gradually leading to their deterioration.

Similarly, Helen Storey's Say Goodbye features a dress gradually being lowered into highly corrosive acid, leading to the garment disappearing entirely.

We also thought the idea of "turning into a pumpkin" at midnight, a la Cinderella was an interesting thought and could  be something that could be explored further.

We appear to have lots of ideas and now it is simply a case of putting them into practice and applying them visually, pushing them out of the abstract.