I wanted to make a piece about the flow of time during the creative process. In order to achieve this I started the design process like another time I would make something. I designed a dress, a simple but elegant dress with a fitted bodice and a handkerchief hem circle skirt. The dress is made of lace so that the view can see into the layers of the dress. The dress is a floral pattern because I wanted it to be organic, since the creative process is organic for me. In the process of designing, I collected elements that were created during the process. For example, my initial sketches, to the flats, to the muslin pattern/mock ups.
When I was done making the dress I had a pile of elements that were made during the process of making the dress. At this point I started building the project. In the process of making a dress there is a mock-up that is created, which is a test run of what the dress is suppose to look like. So that the designer can see how it fits on the body without having to waste fabric that’s 60 dollars per yard. On top of the mock up I started attaching elements from the process.
The individual pieces are a representation of the creative process. So in the terms of semiotics, they are indexes. This is because the individual pieces represent how much time and energy and design process it took me to make the dress.
Ultimately the dress is about the journey that is of making a dress. Of course I had troubles, I’ve never worked with lace before and I was unable to get a zipper foot to install zipper the “proper” way, the machines I worked with were inconsistent and some were not ideal for lace. But that was all part of the process, that was all part of the journey. That was a part of the time flow during the creative process.
