Trust the Process.
This project was born out of thin air and on the premise of wanting to tap more deeply into my creative instincts, or wishes, looking back on 10 years of creative inactivity, feeling time was wasted on “recovering from a long work day” with passivity and apathy.
Quite out of character, but such a long stasis is difficult to shake. So I roped in a friend.
Generative Garment is a working title, as still far from being defined, the collaboration is also finding its way(s), getting out of the slump, re connecting with our own, individual creativity before we can find common grounds in this collaborative process.
two very different people, different backgrounds, origins, characters, views on life, understanding of society, journeys through to this point in time.
The first meeting was an interesting exercise in understanding how we should communicate with each other in this context, having to forget years of friendship and acceptance of how the other is and how we each navigate our lives. I think this may well be the project, if not the entire process.
The number 3
The thought of pieces of work that connects to each other to create a whole experience always appeals to me as this is how I see life, not only serially but also in non linear ways where parts join and combine to create a different truth or rather a deeper understanding of any life journey. We seem to have agreed on the number 3. A triptych.
Stages of life
It seemed like the easiest way to connect and sync our ideas, although not as evidently as first imagined. One would define this conceptually, representing key stages of life through states, the other through emotions.
Womanhood
Our only commonality, lived through intersections.