Illustration: Map Of Dreams Inspiration

Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley's floaty, grotesque imagery captured the dreamy imagery I imagined for my map. Beardsley's lines grow across the page and connect different realms of the image. There are random movements but connections are still made, like the course of a dream.

One of the main reasons I chose to project on dreams was because it's a subject I have always been interested in.

My dreams often influence my drawings and I wanted to learn more about their scientific background.

Neuron Cells

I watched a film called "Dangerous Dreams". Amy Hardy a scientist and film maker created a personal film documents her own experiences with dreams and uses scientific research to explain the nature of dreams.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dangerous-dreams

[Heres the link to the film, it's worth a watch]

I learned that dreams are essentially a way of making sense of the subconscious. The electrical signals and brainwaves that are created in a dreaming state are the same as those produced when learning and being creative.

Textiles: Digital Print Project

Finished Designs for "Deep Sea" fashion prints.

Textiles: Digital Print Project Inspiration

I focused on deep sea creatures as my subject matter and used digital methods to compose a print that was both pretty and ugly...

Inspiration :

Holly Funton A/W 2011

Daphne Greenfold for Valentino

Summer Fashion Illustrations

Rikka Sormunen

Teeth Sharpening

James Jeans impressive body of work shows his love for drawing and moreso of the human form. His maximalist approach to drawing enhances, twists and stretches the figure into a plethora of fantastical imagery.

http://www.jamesjean.com/

Research: Scarification

Scarification is a method of body modification practiced within a range of cultures.

Used for aesthetic, religious and social reason, the practice involves scratching, etching or burning the skin to leave a significant scar on the body.

In west african tribes it is to mark milestones in men and women's lives such as puberty or marriage. Scarifcation on a womans belly signifies her willingness to mother children as the pain she will go through shows her strength and toleration of pain.

It can also signify identity such as religious or political roles and can be used to identify a member of a certain tribe.

This subject is visually and conceptually stimulating for me.

The patterns are etched onto the body in a very decorative manner. It's almost as though these are sculptures or ornate pieces of architecture.

It just goes to show how our own bodies can be a canvas and that we are willing to manipulate it to give ourselves identity.

New Print Making Project: Body Modification

Body Modification:

"The example of tattooing the body is one such ‘decoration’ as is the use of paints cosmetics, jewellery, headgear or clothing. This ‘decoration’ could also be described as ‘body modification’ but at the same time respects and sometimes contradicts the symmetries of the organic form. An order (the pattern) is superimposed on an existing order (the body) which either harmonises or confuses. (The girl = harmony; the boy = confusion.)"

I have always been fascinated by body modification across all cultures as the human form is a big aspect of my work. It is also a lot about identity and status which is a subject I am also interested in taking further.

The idea of harmonising or contradicting the symmetries of the organic form is something that I would love to explore through drawings and prints and I believe it would be something that would expand my own personal style as well as my knowledge of other cultures.

Alexander McQueen

Fall 2010

Poetic, reflective. Religious iconography and subtly electric prints. Innovative and ornate tailoring; unfinished and perfect. Perfect designs from perfect mind.