Generating Initial Samples

As I stated last week more of my own primary visual research was needed in order to strengthen the foundation of my concept of order and chaos. I photographed a friend surrounded by her possessions in order to create a sense of distress caused by the mess and clutter. The photographs were then edited in photoshop as I could then manipulate what was already there, such as duplicating the clutter several times that resembles the accumulation of hoarding objects. 

From the photographs I took inspiration from the shapes of the objects and the colours. The repetition gave me the idea of incorporating actual objects into my knit samples. I intend on experimenting with a mixture of abstract shapes and day to day objects to coincide with my concept and bring a sense of reality to my samples.

Using Illustrator as a tool to design my initial samples proved to be effective in terms of time and being able to choose the right tone of colour. As I have been printing a lot of my designs of tracing paper I wanted to represent the transparent qualities into my knit samples. I used monofilament whilst doing the circular technique on the Dubied and stuffing the pocket with coloured foam shapes and beads to represent the objects in my drawings and photographs.

Researching Chanel's intricate embellishments in the 2014 spring/summer collection for inspiration in terms of beadwork and attention to detail. The beading on my samples will represent the spreading of clutter and the ever-growing and endless cycle of hoarding objects.