Decay - Different Types of Fungus
Photographs of the Fungus under the microscope
Cells taken under the Zeiss Microscope
Cells taken under the Standard Microscope
Following on from returning to the primary research stage, prints were able to be produced using various media. This process of going back to primary research has help whever I have gotten stuck after just looking at books and ready made prints.
The designs below were created using manipulation tools in Photoshop and live trace in Illustrator.
Design size: 4 x A4 (297 x 210 mm approx.) onto 1400mm width silk voile satin.
At this stage
composition, size and context was being considered.
Having them printed
out on to fabric has shown that these designs are too small and detailed to be
printed using the digital ink jet printer. Thus if I was to use these designs
they would have to be enlarged and simplified, a lower resolution would also
help. I also concluded that since these were designs for clutch bags, research
needed to be carried out on sizes of rectangular clutch bags in order to be
printed to correct size with seam allowance.
The reasons that silk
satin was chosen was that it would naturally add dimension to the design
without needing to add too much stitch, however I would consider a lighter
fabric to create a floatey, ethereal like addition to the design to like with
the death and decay theme.
From this stage of
the process I have concluded that the theme of 'wearing death' has been
slightly more defined in the sense that slides of cells are created from post-mortems,
thus these designs can be created using cells of a deceased person, linking
with the original idea of Memorial Inking.
Mary Katrantzou Exclusive Resort Collection - Image Copyright Mary Katrantzou
Image from http://stylefrizz.com/200910/alexander-mcqueen-spring-summer-2010-collection/ - Copyright Alexander McQueen
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