london.springtime

if.muhammad.can't.go.to.the.mountain.

Final Photoshoot

Hair, Makeup and Photography: Zoe Hopgood (me)

Model: Kirsty Robson

draw.transfer.mark.make

To form a connection between my floral fabric manipulations and the letter from Lawrence to Ida I decided to begin experimenting with different methods of printing. Some have worked more effectively than others.

ImageMaker Transfer

Lino Printing

Multimedia - Lino, Stencil, Fabric Crayons, Block Print, Monoprint

Monoprint

Monoprint with water

Monoprint

Monoprint Negative Transfer

Monoprint Negative Transfer

Hand Embroidery

the.written.word

the.darling.buds.of.may

My first major material experiment which I produced to see a) how a floral design could be manipulated out of fabric and b) how a floral design could work on the body. The design is very generic though and it was here that I realised I would need to explore new contour silhouettes. I began doing so using my plaster caste bust form with graduating success.

The below shots are just of a brief experiment I did with rizzlers, water and drawing inks. Fun and when wet quite lovely, but the effect loses its visual effervescence.

Here are a number of continued flower experimentations I carried out in my attempt to determine how flowers could translated visually onto the body, as well as to see whether a new contour design could be produced.

flower

I became extremely fascinated by flowers during the Romance project; the delicate, fragile, soft and overwhelmingly beautiful nature of petals which links so inextricably with femininity. My first aim was to try and see how flowers and petals would work on the body and I started to produce the above petal bra. It's funny how after two days the petals had dried which gave a sweet conceptual notion to the experiment - heightening the fragility, and precious nature of the petals, emphasising the notion of time and its ephemeral nature.