The title of our project this week was Macro-Evolutionary and our task was to design a body adornment that would be worn in a dystopian world. We had to create a narrative and a sequence of events that would lead to this dystopia:
Earth becomes uninhabitable (environmental disaster)
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New planet discovered with similar conditions to Earth
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Humans must relocate to new planet
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Humans must adapt to new environment
I gained inspiration for my work and designs by creating concept boards around the theme of space. I gathered a variety of different images including space photographs, textiles, and film stills. I sketched some initial ideas and then began to focus on a particular idea:
Sketchbook page
Inspired by images of an astronaut, I began to look at the idea of a breathing mask with breathing tubes attached. When designing my ideas, I was inspired by the work of Aitor Throup – http://aitorthroup.com – a fashion designer and artist whose work has a futuristic, military quality to it that linked well to this particular project.
Aitor Throup Studio, http://aitorthroup.com/chapters/exhibitions/
On Thursday, I created my final body adornment, using wire to create a face mask and plastic packaging to create breathing tubes which were threaded through the mask. As no one wanted to model the final adornment for me, I took a picture of myself wearing the design. As the adornment was designed to combat the lack of oxygen in space, I wanted it to look futuristic and I took the photo on a plain white background. I also edited the photo, increasing the brightness and saturation to reflect a different style of lighting in space.
My final body adornment
The final piece didn’t turn out exactly as I thought but I think that it has a futuristic quality and does look like a breathing apparatus which was the most important thing that I wanted to convey.
My Foundation Year 