Above is some research into Alice in Wonderland which was in one of the categories I had to chose from. I felt that I had been spending too much time on Gerhard Richter and it was time to focus more on this… In terms of Alice in Wonderland (AOW) I was more interested in the fact that she shrunk and grew which I think resembles childhood quite a lot, not just because children are smaller in general but the fact that kids always wanted to grow up and be more mature. With this, I created a series of samples, predominantly with blue and I also managed to do it using a shower curtain! I really liked these samples as I tried to copy the shapes and structure from the melted samples I did previously. I would have liked to have created more samples but I have another process in mind which will save me the hassle of doing these individually, but still look more eye-appealing. I have thought about a final concept idea and that is using the process of subtraction cutting. Subtraction cutting is when you sow 2 pieces of fabric together but leave one side open, from this you cut away circles from 2 parts of the fabric and sow them together and keep doing this process 3-4 times. With this, you end up with a dress that has massive bulges and points hanging naturally and I think this relates well to Richter for his abstract art, Alice in Wonderland for scale of parts of the garment, Corner shop for the bright range of colours and Childhood memories for also the colouring and innocence of how it looks as it will be very bold and minimal yet have a lot of definition to it.
Overall, I am happy that I now have a much more solid idea for a final outcome and I will need to begin constructing it very shortly. I do feel that I have worked rather hard for this project and I hope it pays off, however there is always room for improvement and I think one of the things that I wish I could have done was to make a full scale wrapper dress, but I would much rather have something more practical whilst still using all the skills and processes I have made up to this point.
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