Random Spaces: Brink Lane, London

    When we were out on our day trip, I came across these random spaces in the location which is, Brick Lane. I have always been fascinated with this area from the vast amount of markets, fabric shops, wall art and more. In particular, I was most interested in areas which weren't in use anymore, including grills, gates, walls, empty spaces and more. Brick Lane is defiantly a place you go to and can't not see something new and in this case I found something very interesting. I think this area in Brick Lane relates very well to where I went to photograph my accessories at (Wapping Hydraulic Power Station). Below are some examples from which I have taken.

    I became automatically interested in these spaces because I think they relate very well to my personal theme and I would defiantly consider this as primary research. If I could have done anything different, it would have been to have taken more photos or perhaps even created a few drawings, although we were running out of time by the time I walked past these places. I thought that they were very interesting and they instantly reminded me of things such as animal cruelty, poor conditions, closed spaces and empty dark space. I felt rather worried to be in this space because I couldn't quite tell if someone was in there or if anything was in there because there were random objects of things which surely couldn't have been placed there by accident, hence there is some storyline or journey to what has been and occurred within this space. Nonetheless, I liked how it had many elements inside it, mostly rubble, but it defiantly  gave the place character. Not to mention, the outside of these walls were covered in word graffiti, decaying wall boards and even an old rustic sign saying, 'closed' (Like that wasn't obvious?!)

Overall, I was really happy that I was able to get a glimpse of this place and it has inspired me to create some designs using the texture of the square grills, but use it as a laser cut shape to show an entrapment of the body, yet again relating to texture and animal cruelty. I have finally got more sense of an idea as to what I want to achieve at the end of this project and I think that it is working very efficiently so far, although I need to stretch my ideas further now and begin to create samples so I can get a better idea of how I am going to create my garments.