Fashion and Jewellery collaboration - Final piece

And here we are...some photos and stills from our short film (and of course the film itself), edited by our group member, Hussa. Her strong passion and determination for editing film made us all trust her skills to create something beautiful with our final piece. That she did...

It was shot within a construction site for a developing shopping area (our final choice of 'shop window' set by the brief at the start) . The churned up earth related well to the ritualistic aspect of our piece and the fact that it is a building site links in with the whole idea of mark-making and process. 

We used black ink, coffee and turmeric as our pigments to stain and mark the garment. We thought that their organic, natural hues would do the job perfectly. 

I love how this performance was just a one-time thing - no marks on the garment could have ever been re-created by the jewellery or movement of the body in the exact, same way. The messi-ness of it all was so un-me but it was so so great - it's taught me the wonders of letting-go! 

Although at the time (during filming) we were all very 'highly-strung', in that we all wanted to get involved in some way or another, looking back, we all actually did have a good laugh! 

Enjoy...