https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1 GRADUATE DIPLOMA en-us 2022-08-05 16:13:58 UTC 2024-04-04 22:00:59 UTC hello@padlet.com 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255591847 2022-08-05 17:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255591847 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255592859 In Investigate, I began by exploring the seam. Drawing off Catherine Dormor's philosophies of seaming, where seaming represents the in-between as ideas are joined together. I embarked on experiments surrounding the seam, considering how else I could conceive of the seam as a meaning-making mechanism. ]]> 2022-08-05 17:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255592859 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255593788 In my first round of experiments, I considered the decorative stitch, asking what it means for a material to be stitched back onto itself. The experiments surrounded stitching and structuring, considering how a seam can be extended to both serve as a decorative element, and as a shaping, structuring mechanism.]]> 2022-08-05 17:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255593788 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255595854 As Catherine Dormor connects seaming with tracing, and considering my last experiment, where I traced my human form in textile, I began to consider the traditional fashion design process, where fabrics are pinned and stitched on a dress-form mannequin, and then taken off, becoming a trace of the object in textile form. As I had previously worked with textiles and furniture in my last experiments, I considered the chair form as an object designed to caress the human form; the chair form therefore inherently straddles a line between human and object.

I also considered Claire Wellesley-Smith and Emma Shercliff's views on the stitch as a relationship building enterprise-- was the stitch creating relationships between the textile and the object? Between myself and the work?]]> 2022-08-05 17:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255595854 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255596981 At this point in investigate, I began to consider how to scale-up the seam, making large, long fabric straps and macrame knotting to replicate a process close to seaming on a larger scale. This process was valuable as the enlarged size contributed to a more embodied stitching process, using my whole arm to stitch rather than a few fingers. Additionally, I experimented using the knot as a trace, notting around a material, and removing the knot to create a textile trace. ]]> 2022-08-05 17:33:35 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255596981 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255598430 I returned to the chair-form at the end point of Investigate. Again, considering the dress-form mannequin, I drew from dress-form construction to make a small chair model that I could easily pin-into, pattern and drape for. 
Exploring notions of textile work, relationship-building, and identity through contextual research, and furthermore considering seaming as trace, I asked how a chair, with its likeness to the human form, could represent a trace of myself.  I created garments for the chair that mimic my personal style, crafting a piece of work that I felt deeply connected to as a 'trace' of myself. ]]> 2022-08-05 17:37:44 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255598430 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255599397 2022-08-05 17:40:25 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255599397 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255599847 2022-08-05 17:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255599847 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255604341 I started with a fashion experiment, considering how the decorative stich could be used alonside folding and added weight (washers and nuts), to create new shapes, ruffling, and silhouettes.]]> 2022-08-05 17:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255604341 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255604708 I moved on to consider the stitch and joinery, how the same, elongated decorative stitch could be used to join non-textile materials. Here, drilling holes in found wood and chip board to construct a stool.]]> 2022-08-05 17:54:27 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255604708 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255605157 Replicating this process, with an acrylic sheet lasercut with a stitching grid, and found tin boxes]]> 2022-08-05 17:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255605157 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255624607 As I worked to finish up the last piece, I considered, through the process, the embodied nature of stitching. Stitch by stitch my body became entangled with the yarn. 
I decided to try to capture this by stitching my hand to the object. What was most interesting, was when I took my hand out from underneath the stitches, and discovered a trace of my body within the object. Connecting to Dormor's seaming-as-trace, I asked, How else could I use the stitch as a tracing mechanism?

]]> 2022-08-05 18:45:01 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255624607 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255629463 Wrapping, folding, and stitching a found textile over a chair. Taking the chair off, attaching a bottom (a recycled bin lid)]]> 2022-08-05 18:59:18 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255629463 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255632004 After stuffing-- a new semi-chair is created from the trace of the other]]> 2022-08-05 19:06:31 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255632004 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255644015 2022-08-05 19:43:36 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255644015 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255644794 With this piece, I started with the same process of folding and stitching, using textile to trace around the chair. As I worked, however, I became less interested in what would happen if I took the fabric off the chair, and more interested in the character created through the textile. Can the stitched textile create a 'trace' of humanity onto a non-human object?]]> 2022-08-05 19:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255644794 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255653058 Evident here is the embodiment of the stitch working at such a large scale ]]> 2022-08-05 20:15:43 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255653058 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255653683 Completed work, calling back to stitching structure by using knotting to hold up pillows made of the same material.]]> 2022-08-05 20:17:51 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255653683 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255654880 Example of knotting around wood. Removing the wood revealed a trace of the inner material.]]> 2022-08-05 20:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255654880 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255654916 It is important to note that Knitta Please is not the only yarn-bomber; they are representative of a large community of yarn-bombing practitioner/activists.]]> 2022-08-05 20:22:37 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255654916 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255656546 The 'naked' chair. Drawing from the construction of dress-form mannequins, constructed from wood covered in foam-board, covered in a layer of neutral calico fabric. ]]> 2022-08-05 20:28:22 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255656546 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255656788 2022-08-05 20:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255656788 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255656963 Finding silhouette using pins, and constructing garments.]]> 2022-08-05 20:29:57 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255656963 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255658966 Me and my work-- the resemblence between us, through the stitched textiles we wear, is tangible. 

Photo by Hui (Amy) Li]]> 2022-08-05 20:37:17 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255658966 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255661072 The Realise portion of stage 2 was an opportunity to communicate my findings during investigate-- Considering the chair as a human/non-human form, stitched textiles as an opportunity to leave a human trace in a non-human object, and the act of stitching as an embodied means of inserting myself into the work. ]]> 2022-08-05 20:46:04 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255661072 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255664265 My contextual research during Investigate formed the bases of my concept, and constructed the questions I would address and expand during Realise. My research during Realise was concerned with how I would communicate these findings and questions; I drew off of speculative design, theatre-oriented bodily performance, and prop and costume theory to create a work of design and a communicative editorial. ]]> 2022-08-05 20:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255664265 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255664965 2022-08-05 21:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255664965 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255665388 2022-08-05 21:03:38 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255665388 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255665908 2022-08-05 21:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255665908 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255668308 2022-08-05 21:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255668308 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255852117 This process took a very fashion-minded approach. Draping in calico, marking on the form (me and the chair) and tracing those marks onto brown paper, creating pattern pieces to then cut out in the fashion fabric. ]]> 2022-08-06 11:59:53 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255852117 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255852360 2022-08-06 12:01:28 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255852360 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255852872 2022-08-06 12:04:54 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255852872 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255858771 For the trousers, I took a less techincal approach-- creating a pair of what looked like underwear, and attaching straps to the chair in the shape of my seated legs. These pieces attach to a flat piece on the seat of the chair with buckles, so that I can strap myself in.]]> 2022-08-06 12:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255858771 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255860018 I had intended to create a publication as my outcome; something along the lines of a book felt appropriate for telling the "story" of my project. 
As I worked though, the separation of pages created distinctions between each image, and between myself and the chair. This was antithetical to communicating the relationship between the two of us. A one page editorial spread was more appropriate.]]> 2022-08-06 12:48:11 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255860018 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255861449 Process Photography: Natalia Mesa

]]> 2022-08-06 12:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255861449 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255862181 Photography by Marlee Weill and Natalia Mesa]]> 2022-08-06 12:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255862181 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255864877 Photography by Marlee Weill and Natalia Mesa]]> 2022-08-06 13:07:37 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255864877 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255864941 Photography by Marlee Weill and Natalia Mesa]]> 2022-08-06 13:08:01 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255864941 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255867452 2022-08-06 13:20:07 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255867452 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255867904 2022-08-06 13:22:31 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255867904 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255868286 2022-08-06 13:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255868286 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255868970 2022-08-06 13:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255868970 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255869405 2022-08-06 13:30:36 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255869405 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255878234 2022-08-06 14:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255878234 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255879179 2022-08-06 14:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2255879179 100116361 https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2256099166 Drawing off my last Investigate work, I made a full scale version of the dress-form chair. In terms of seeing a 'trace' of myself in the final work, it was important that I be able to interact with the piece as a chair; sitting in it calls attention to its cradling of my human form, and our similar sizes reduce the hierarchy between myself and the object.]]> 2022-08-07 10:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/100116361/lcdryanf7e7xliz1/wish/2256099166