April 2019: Struktur/Katarsis

Fritt designprojekt med utgångspunkt i manliga våldsnormer. Projektet var en del av mina studier vid Stenebyskolan (inriktning skinn/textil).

Two facing pages of collages. The left hand page is a blue, white and red digital image giving the effect of water marbling, with a cut out quote from Hjalmar Söderberg's 'Doktor Glas'. The right hand page has three film screen shots stacked on top of each other: the lower half of a man sitting in a chair placed on newspapers taped to a wooden floor. A cropped torso of a man in a button up and tie standing against a lengthwise window shutter. The cards of Patrick Bateman and David Van Patten on a dark table. Underneath that, handwritten: 'YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY...' Two facing pages of collages. The left hand page is a blacked out image and a black and white photo of a hand underwater, the light through the rings on the surface causing a sharp contrast of circular stripes over the fingers and bottom. Between the images, handwritten: '...THAT GOD DOES NOT LIKE YOU.' The base of the collage is obituaries clipped out from newspapers. The right hand page features three photographs: a smooth piece of glass on a rocky shore, a man swimming beneath the surface of a pool (his upper body out of frame), a massive collection of lights as a large group of people have gathered in public at night.

Two facing pages of collages. The left hand page shows photos of window shutters, corrugated steel, and a tiled wall. Two movie frames; the back of a man in a dirty room with a figure tied up to a chair in the background, the X of a harness on his back outlined. The second frame is a group of bare chested men in a dark room surrounding another man seemingly kneeling. The right hand page has three movie frames: a view from inside a building through gridded windows show a man leaning against the building and holding a megaphone. A man with disheveled hair and a pinstripe suit looks off camera, his face covered in blood. Two men on the floor, one cradling the other, both of them wearing black suits and ties. The shirt of the one being cradled is bled through and both of their hands are bloody. Both collages have printed out colour palettes. A page from a sketchbook featuring two watercolour sketches overlapping. One full body sketch of a pale green zoot suit and one bust sketch of an indigo zoot suit and hat. There are notes on the page in black ink.

Above: pages from collage sketchbook. Watercolour development sketch.
Below: digital development sketches.

A digital sketch. Pale blue lines illustrate the gnarled trunk of a tree before extending into straight lines on the grey background. A digital sketch. White lines on a black background create abstract shapes and are then stretched out into lines. A digital sketch. Blue, red and white fields of colour resembling a water marble stretch out into stripes. A digital sketch. Pale green pinstripes are made wobbly and uneven on a dark green background.

Three water colour illustrations. The left hand image shows a character wearing a sweater vest with a paisley-like pattern in lilac and baby blue, a dark blue bow in place of a tie, and brown pinstripe trousers. The middle image shows a person in very baggy trousers with a blue-purple ombre colour, a flaxen buttonup, and a bottle green but transparent suit jacket. Additionally, they are wearing a hat with the underside of the brim in lilac. The right hand image shows a person wearing a button up style shirt with wobbly purple pinstripes and a big bow in the same fabric in place of a tie, as well as flared, grey trousers. Two water colour illustrations and some detail images from those. The left hand character wears a pinstripe button up, and a navy pinstripe waistcoat and trousers. The stripes change from blue or white into red, creating the optical illustion of bleeding. The right hand character wears a grey suit with wide lapels and dark grey pinstripes. Between the two characters are three illustrations showing the progression of a blue pinstripe shirt becoming a red pinstripe shirt and then 'bleeding through' enough that the chest and wrist areas just look red. There are also two illustrations showing the progression of the 'bleedthrough' on the navy suit.

Illustrations for five outfits including details.