House Of Ruth..

Some links for your B-More Bags designing process!

More info about domestic violence/House Of Ruth Maryland here

Also, on Democracy Now on Friday Amy Goodman discussed domestic violence. Apparently, health insurance companies in 8 states plus DC consider domestic violence a pre-existing condition..! on You can hear more about that here

Hope this helps you better understand the client.. I will provide fabric on Thursday, but if you are in need of something specific please bring it with you.

Happy Weekend!

Ke's Proposal

It seems as if all matter has a dual meaning. Man and woman, good and evil, winner and loser are all examples of dualisms. Whether it is intended or not the two words are always compared causing one of the words to become inferior to the other. When one realizes that all words are created, you realize that dualisms are interconnected and thus inseparable because they define one another. Dualisms are maintained to sustain control and ignorance thus maintaining boundaries.

The reality of dualisms is directly reflected in the fictitious world of the superhero (crime fighter). In order for the superhero to exist there is a need for crime and villains. This is the same for villainy. Villains would not find pleasure in crime without sadistic intention.

This semester, I will explore the dichotomy of the superhero and villain in order to better understand the role dualisms plays in society, culture, and art.

Carolyn Murphy

Proposal

I plan to explore fetishism, gratification as well as sexual arousal of a worshipped factor through fashion. A celebration of obsession, I would like to incorporate specific aspects of human emotion as well as ritual of certain popularized fetish subcultures.

Michela

alex puckett proposal

Weight, forms, shapes...created by the existence of an outer “skin” exposing its inner being/form/idea. These exposures that I am interested in only seem to be possible/visible/understandable for me with the presence of the outside surface. And this is what I am interested in and I want to explore, with co-relation to the body in a sculptural garment form. Growing, conjoining with use of elastic materials. I want to examine how these abnormalities or regularities occur in living beings on earth, both scientifically and visually. I want to exaggerate these forms. Along with these forms and entities concerning abnormalities and regularities in forms on living creatures, I also want to explore the particular way my mind works in gendering objects and shapes on the body and off the body. As noticed in my first project I took something very simple, a wine glass, and attempted to bring up questions concerning the relationship I have with it’s form. This project will hopefully allow for a more understandable dialogue to begin in my mind between these separate thoughts concerning forms and shapes.

peter pinchbeck painting

Proposal

For the project I'd like to research where items are made and where they are distributed based on history and politics. I also want to incorporate personal family history into this topic as well. I've also been really interested in the ideas of radical geography recently - the rethinking and re-visualizing of our sense of space and place, and I think it is relevant to this conversation of labor production/distribution of clothing.

*this is map of the North-South divide (though not based on actual geography) is used to understand socio-economic and political divisions - but does it really work?

posted by Jen

sometimes i'm PRETTYstupid

this is one of my favorite images of all time!

the rest are pretty strange






derrick adams

for katie

for everyone