Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Final Pattern Book

My final pattern book:



My two favorite patterns:


A pattern imposed onto a garment:


Fractals
            In an attempt to merge the visceral with the mindful, mirrors and rays become fractals throughout space. Why do we need mirrors? Why do we need to look at ourselves? Is it to reassure ourselves that we exist? To reassure ourselves of our own identity? Is this something within our DNA? The reflections start oscillating into double helixes, reminding us that we are only strands of carbon and hydrogen, only existing on the physical level. Helixes refracting over each other, concaving and convexing like a mirror. We only bleed red when punctured and we only bleed blue when we hurt ourselves.

            My research topic deals with how the body affects the development of our personalities and whether we can develop our identities free from any influences of the scrutiny of our bodies. This is essentially trying to find the separation between mind, body, and spirit, and whether either one can exist without the other. The original motif is based on the image of a concave mirror, which distorts the light waves that it reflects. If someone were to look into a concave mirror, he or she will see a distorted image of their face, and thus a distorted image of their identity on a physical level. This brings in the question of whether the person is sure of his or her own identity and existence without the need of seeing it physically with the mirror, since looking through the mirror distorts the identity and gives false information. The motif is then arranged to look like a double helix, the very "language" that our bodies are written in. This then merges the mental idea of identity with the actually physical, raw materials that we are made of.

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