Week One- This week was devoted to creating the shirt itself. I gathered my scrap sections of fabric, was pleasantly surprised as I had more black fabric left than I initially thought, and starting cutting the shapes and pinning them together to create the base shirt. I sewed the pieces together and hemmed all of the edges trying to keep it looking as clean as possible, so this took quite a bit longer. Then I found the blue fabric, cut, hemmed, and attached the square to the front of the shirt and started working on the sleeves. I didn't have quite enough for full sleeves, so I decided stick with some of my original cold shoulder designs and keep the shape a bit more boxy because of the fabric. I sewed and hemmed those. Week Two- The first day I ironed the fabric and then created my new stencil and found my old ones. I then painted the base coat of white on the fabric. The second day I spent transferring all of the designs from the stencils. Shelby Donnelly is a contemporary artist whose works include garments and textiles that she has sewn and screen printed on. She often includes these garments and textiles in videos and installations. She creates scenes of dramas that display her observations of everyday experiences and relationships with ritual, ceremony, and spirituality as well as one's subconsciousness. She often incorporates elements form other media such as films or news and often tries to capture a fleeting moment in her work. She has had exhibits nationally and internationally with exhibits in the International House Philadelphia's Ibrahim Theater, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Haus der Kunst Museum. She currently works and lives in Philadelphia, Pa. Shelby Donnelly has had two major collections, Slow Grooming and Wear to Wall. Wear to Wall was created by Shelby to display her custom collages displayed on the body but also could be displayed framed as well. Her website: http://www.shelbydonnelly.com/2902139-about I find her work very interesting and I like all the different textures and images she is able to include in these pieces. I quite like how she layers the different types of fabrics and creates interesting pieces through all of the different colors and patterns she uses on the fabrics. It is quite interesting how many of the types of fabric and patterns would not be traditionally used together as they are busy or would clash but she uses them to create interesting textures in her works. I like how many of her pieces are embroidered as well and in some of her pieces she has attached other materials as well such as keys or links of chain. I might try to include more textured elements in my pieces in the future or try to include many more layers to create texture by including fabrics over top of the others or even additions of jewelry attached to my sewn pieces.
This quarter I attended the live lunchtime lecture, which was about Japanese aesthetics, specifically talking about the three concepts of wabi, sabi, and yugen and the idea of aesthetics as well which was quite interesting. Wabi was a concept related to Shinto and valued simplicity/unpretentiousness, imperfection/irregularity, and austereness/starkness. Sabi was also relating to natural beauty, specifically the impermanence and asymmetry of that which is natural. Yugen is related to buddhism and means dim, deep, and mysterious so it also involves profound ideas as well. The lecture was interesting overall mostly to see exactly how these aesthetics found their way into different art forms as well and what art forms have existed in Japan over the centuries, how they have evolved over time. She also talked about the importance of light in Japanese aesthetics, specifically how light was considered inside buildings, which was quite interesting. I think some of the ideas of wabi-sabi could play more into my future works as I currently have focuses on many natural elements and with my most recent finished piece had elements of asymmetry so this could be something to continue working with in the future.
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Avarice StankiewiczHi, I'm Avarice, though I mostly go by Kace, I'm an art 5 student at Maggie Walker Governor's school and page is just a space for some reflection, research and progress photos for my work. Archives
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