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ILLUSIONS OF TRANSPARENCY/

Steming from an obsession with 1950s suburbian nolstagia, my womenswear collection explores the instability of reality within a seemingly carefully constructed world. Within my materials I explore this idea of  an instable  reality using color theory from Josef Albers’ book Interactions of Color and techniques used by kinetic artists to create illusions of transparency and depth using opaque materials. I do this through techniques of applique, lacemaking,colorblocking,and embroidery all within the constraints of gingham and polka print. A classic Americana print; nostalgic of the housewife and suburban America. But what is the nostalgia really for in this instable world? Is it nostalgia for the way things never were? My silhouettes reflect this questioning with clean classic silhouettes, with something just slightly off coming from a feeling of being undone or disheveled. I looked greatly to the work of Guy Bourdin, whose photographs can be disillusioning, capturing a feeling of tension in this created world that doesn't quite sit in a static reality. A place stuck between two conflicting identities: the one backstage or behind the white picket fence, and the one that demands to be performed on stage.The question I have throughout the story of the collection, when living in a instable reality, is it worth breaking from the illusion to take the journey to find out just if the grass could be greener?

TRANSPARENCY OF ILLUSIONS

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