I’ve added the Hybridization project to the main site, and updated a few images for the Gloomy Skirt that I took a few months ago. I plan to update a few more images with better ones as well over the next few days or so. I’m also going to be taking and uploading videos for a few of the projects.

As for things to come, I’m going to be working on the shop section of the website over the next month or so. I want to change a few things and make it easier to use.

I just updated the Textiles section of the main site. The things added were the Ribcage Bag, the Crumple Shirt (which I couldn’t think of a name for, I’m so bad at this), and the Cyborg Scarf (new, better photos).

I’ve finally gotten access to a studio and a really nice DSLR camera. I still have about 2 more major things to shoot, but I’ll get around to that later, one of them requires a model.

The Brampton Art Fair is coming up really soon, I’m pretty much set, I just have to tag a few items and take a few photos. I’ve made a few less expensive items that will make good gifts, like tea towels, placemats and cards.

This was the theme:

New Atlantide: Be inspired by the legend of Atlantis and it’s women, highlighting the charm of classical elegance where the art of draping and Greco-Roman jewels reign supreme. Raised and padded bas-relief embroideries, iridescent mother-of-pearl, delicate minerals, laminated silks and metal and bronze accessories ornate this modern-day goddess. Tones of grey, aluminium, silver, pistachio, jade and Parma violet.

The theme was definitely not something that I was too excited about to begin with. The overall theme was supposed to be Modern Goddess. I ended up taking this idea and went in a different direction, I tried to stay as close to it as possible though.

I decided to make the fabrics seems like they’ve been underwater for a while, with things growing off them. This is Atlantis after it’s already sunk to the bottom of the ocean.

This project was supposed to be mainly about embroidery, so there is a bit of embroidery on my samples. I used glow-in-the-dark embroidery thread and I also machine stitched some glow-in-the-dark sewing thread onto pieces. Some of the pieces also have glow-in-the-dark pigment added to them. Again, I wanted an underwater feeling. I was thinking of bioluminescent algae and sea creatures. The pieces take a completely different look once they’re placed in the dark.

All of the photography is done by Angel Rivera. I felt ridiculous posing for these photos, especially when I fell over into the water after stepping on a rock covered in algae. I love how they turned out though.

I’ve added these images to the main portfolio page as well. I was messing around with how the images on the portfolio pages are displayed, so if something looks off, it should be fixed by tomorrow afternoon.

I’ve been recycling beer bottles and making them into glasses. It’s been interesting. I just started using a vinyl cutter to make a pattern for the glasses so that I can sandblast a design into them. Hopefully I’ll have a set of them in the shop by the end of the month.

As of September, I’ll have access to a textile studio so I can work on screenprinted things (I wanted to make aprons and t-shirts and stuff like that).

Thanks to everyone that stopped by!

I’ll be adding several things to the shop over the next few days, mainly things that were on my table at the show. They’ll be available for purchase online.

Here’s a picture of my table, I thought there were more pictures taken, but I guess not. There were a lot of people taking random pictures of my stuff so maybe I’ll end up finding them somewhere on flickr later.

I’ll be adding a few more products over the next few days hopefully.

Here’s some of the scarves I’ve been making this week. I’m still working on olive, light blue, orange, black and red ones. I’ll probably just add them to the shop when I’m done.

They’re made with wool and silk, and dyed with kool aid. I’ve had a ton of fun making them. I love the texture.