We had a group crit at uni this week and whilst I did not reveal the garment during this conversation due to the fragility of the paper and the lack of space on the tables, it was discussed afterwards at a tutorial.
The decision on the hem has been made as everyone was in agreement that it should be scorched enabling it to demonstrate the technique / damage part of the garment. And conceptually it says that damage never goes away but does become part of life, but without careful attention paid to detail it can just become part of the invisible.
Another suggestion was to try and create a suggestion of form in the garment by finding a structure that could go underneath and help give it some depth rather than just hanging flat on a hanger.
An artist that helps to confirm this idea is Caroline Broadhead
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| Dress with black holes, 1999, Caroline Broadhead |
One dress overlays the other, the openings are dominant; the part where we are able to take the garment on and off. Maybe the suggestion of things gone and things to come.
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| Ready to Tear, 1998, Caroloine Broadhead |
Caroline Broadhead's work offers an experience; her interest is in the body or its absence, its senses and its movements. Wearability is not the aim, the important thing is the possibility that it could be worn.
So I plan to make a hanger that will help to create some space in the garment because I want to suggest the fragility of human emotion, the absent body which has struggled with the inner need to repair after a personal trauma.
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