Fifth 'Explore Creativity' lesson- Chair sculptures on the stand

Picture from my sketchbook( both sculptures together)

This week's season was very creative because we had to shape garments or parts of them out of last week's activity which was working with chairs.My team and I, began removing the hard fabric pieces out of the chairs and we started experimenting on a mannequin with the first one (tall single chair).We were moving the fabrics on the body in such a way that would show how this experiment could work as a top or a shoulder trim or a dress or something that we have not decided already! Here are some pictures of our try:

front

left side 

back

shoulders details

more details

another shape

I found this picture relevant to my work and it shows a future architecture project building 

page from my sketchbook

page from my sketchbook

Then we started working with the second shape made out of jersey fabric which we decided not to cut in many pieces because we liked the angles that were shaped and we thought it looks very minimal this way.We placed it on the stand and it could work as a dress or a decoration for the back.

front

right side

back

one more picture i found relevant to my work, it shows another futuristic architectural project

                                                                                                                                                                                  In the end of the session we thought it is a good idea to combine these two pieces and see what comes out of it and how they could be stuck together and create a third, new shape. The fact that we wanted to make it  look more interesting led us to the decision to place the sculptures on a real human body so we used Stellina as a model.

left side

back

I have to admit it is scaring but cool

how the first shape could work as a handbag

page from my sketchbook

Fourth 'Explore Creativity' Lesson- Chairs!

This week's challenge was dressing up chairs with elastic fabrics such as tights, mutton cloth or other fabrics of our interest. The purpose of this process was to create large shapes and explore how those could work when being us as real actual pieces of clothing. Splitting up in teams of three people, we started working! The first step was to chose a chair of our preference and cover it with cling film all over so that the chair is protected and   give a different shape on the surface.

The chair with cling film rolled all around

After that, my team and I, started dressing the chair up with different tights and mutton cloth, and connecting the fabric in random shapes that we liked until a big part of the chair was covered.

chair with a beige tight

a black tight added

mutton cloth added ( final result- back)

final result- front

page from my sketchbook

When finishing with the first chair, we decided to start a second shape with combining two other types of chairs( lower ones) so that the shape that would result out of it, would be one with many angles.We thought to cover those two chairs with a different material, so we used lightweight jersey fabric and the whole sculpture with one big piece of fabric, so that is looks more dramatic when being used as a part of a cloth on a mannequin.

2nd sculpture

Page from my sketchbook

The last part of this session was to spread PVC glue all over the fabrics so that when they dry the become hard and keep their shapes and angles. This way we will be able to experiment with these shapes on the mannequins.

2nd sculpture in the process of gluing

A dress by Emily Crane, made using gelatin. Ms. Crane also uses seaweed, natural flavor extracts, glycerin and food dyes in her clothing line.

Third 'Explore Creativity' lesson- Big Scale paperfolding

The third lesson was meant for the students to experiment on how small scaled paper folding that might look not that successful, can become very interesting and stunning when being bigger. So the idea was picking one shape of our preference from last weeks session, and copying it to a big paper. After that we would have to cut it and create a 3D sculpture. I tried the last shape from my last collection 3 times until I get the right size and here are some pictures.

Page from my sketchbook(1st try)

2nd try

result of my second try

Finally i got 2 pieces together and stuck them on the wall so that  I  could get a bigger  shape

This is the result of the 3d try

side view

After that ,we had to spread in teams of two people and connect our 3D sculptures together and see which new shapes come out of that process.

Stellinas, Ivankas and my shapes combined together

From the back side

The final stage of this learning process was for us to rumple our 3D shape and find out which new shapes come out of this.

the shape of my sculpture on the table

On the mannequin

Page from my sketchbook

The learning outcomes of this lesson were many, as it teached me how the size sometimes makes objects look different and that i should not give up before trying other options.

Related to the subject ( NOT made by me)