KINNI: Geometrically Inspired—project end

From the beginning of the second year, I have worked on a project called Geometrically Inspired, and it was the hand in day of that project, today.

Yet I did structure project in the last year, to get inspiration from architecture was still unfamiliar to me. That is why I had struggled at the beginning of the project. In particular, it was very hard to apply texture to geometric patterns, because texture is usually exists on organic stuff, and by contrast, artificial stuff is tended to be flat.

At the primary research in September, I focused on shapes/lines of patterns, and less considered about texture/composition and even colours. After a couple of tutorials, I was aware of it, and the problem has been solved, but I still could not totally satisfied with my work. There was still plenty of room for improvement, but I did not did my best for making it better, and I was rather excited about the weave workshop classes. Consequently the first block of the project has finished with little regret. (I did enjoy weaving though.)

In November—after the reading weak—, the later half of the project had begun. Firstly I thought it is boring to continue the same project over 2 months, but actually it turned to a chance to do what I could not do at the last time. In addition to it, the next workshop was embroidery, which I had been longing for. In the technical classes at the workshop, I could work more confidently than the last time, because I was proud of my passion for embroidery as an embroidery lover. Although I was afraid of machine embroidery, I found it fun, because of much more interesting and simple technique than I had imagined. Meanwhile, I spent enough time on drawing and colour analysis, so that I would not make the same mistake again. New colour pallets are not like usual me, and I am happy with it, although it was impossible to get desirable materials.

As a result, I am pretty sure that I enjoyed this project, especially technical exploration. On the other hand, I still have a problem of relating my work and designers' collection in order to develop my idea, and that will be a subject at the next project.