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| The Tears That You and I Know - Caroline Wong |
For these collage illustrations, I cast aside my fear of ruining things and took to hacking away at an old Dazed and Confused issue. With the choice of working all day on 5 illustrations or using half the day to work on creating garments on the stand as well, I chose to focus entirely on the collages as not only do I not feel comfortable with the work I produce when working with fabric/clothes on mannequins but I also thoroughly dislike it. Collaging is also something I tend to dislike as I'm never a fan of the mishap feel the final product generally has. Saying that, I found this task rather difficult as I was never completely happy and struggled to make a start once I'd finished cutting out all the bits of clothing I could find.
The aim of my illustrations was to simply produce something that didn't look like it related entirely to fashion. I wanted my illustrations to have an element of fun or meaning to them and it wasn't until I'd finished all of them and looked at them in great detail that I realised they all shared a dark similarity. Once I'd found this common meaning to them, I began to appreciate the illustrations and went on to label them what I thought they all depicted.
The labels behind the images have now gone on to influence my research into my concept and I now have the idea of 'a deconstructed mind' in the sense of a torn apart reality relating to mental health disorders and psychiatry.
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