Month: April 2022

The first idea I could came up with is about the beauty behind in the past Europe, which was inspired by the video I watched about the disease in the middle ages. To be more specific, the video introduced the tuberculosis, which was a lethal disease at that time. However, the disease was quite popular at that time because the symptom appearance was related to the aesthetic at that time. Therefore, even though the women looked beauty at that time, the appearances behind were significantly disgusting.

The second idea I could conceive was about the development of medicine. I recalled the documentary called ‘Two Hundred Years of Surgery’, which talks about how human develop the medicine, and save lives from nature. However, the process of development is full of darkness and blood. Therefore, I would like to make the content about how the past people explore the unknown of medicine.

The third idea I recalled is about the aposematism. I got the idea from the news which was about a woman who was almost going to eat the blue ringed octopus, which is poisonous. Then I made the connection between the some creatures which have vivid colour, which are quite pretty, but they might be poisonous. Moreover, because of it, the predators would be warned by the colour. Therefore, I could make the content about the dangerous behind the beautiful and colourful things.

Therefore, in all three ideas I could think about I would like to choose the second one for my project, after considered about the property and the advantages of the situation.

The Surgery of 19th Century till Now

This topic came from the documentary that I watched before called Two Hundred Years of Surgery. The documentary mainly talked about the darkness and bloody process during the development of the medicine which shocked me a lot. In my project I would like to show how the modern medicine developed and lead to the aim of the project: how people confront the nature and death.

The first I would like to do the research both online and in the reality. First, it is important to review the documentary. With the combination of my situation, I chose the 19^th century as the mainly part for the project. Then I decided to go to the science museum and the old operating theatre museum in London and draw the interesting objects with the sketches. The medicine gallery in science museum combined the modern medicine with the past surgery together and the old operating theatre museum could help me to develop more into the object.

In the BA courses I would like to go into the Pattern Cutting in Womenswear, so in this project I am going to focus more on the silhouette and design part. Despite the project I did in term 2, in the silhouette part I would like to use more calicos with different weight. To be more specific, I tried to get close to the feeling of the flow of different calicos and develop the calicos in different shapes on mannequin. In the design part, in the illustrations I would like to make them more conceptual in my design and more exaggerated in the performance after I got a positive reflection on a specific design, I made in term 2. Moreover, in the drawing part, besides watercolour, I would like to use different ways and material such as the colour pencil and ink.

The outcome of the projects I am going to arrange my stuffs more logically unlike I did in term 2. In these slides I am going to put more slides for the process of silhouette and design to show my ability in Pattern Cutting. Moreover, after the end of term 2, I realised that the text should be the assist function of my project, so I shall reduce the text in the slides instead of my research.