NAUTICAL ECHOES

Nautical Echoes

For this collection I started out by experimenting a lot with shape and silhouette.

While experimenting I felt a lot of freedom this and some of the silhouette experiments I made reminded me of ocean life. Even though the species living in the oceans and seas are limited to just living in water, I feel like they have a lot of freedom, humans don’t want to disturb the living in the darkest depths.

This inspired me to make a small collection based off the animals/creatures that scare us that live in the darkest parts, or ones that just have dark lives.

09/2022 - 02/2023
Amsterdam

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Nautical Echoes is an unconventional collection inspired by the solitary fish of the ocean’s depths.

Through fabric and paper silhouette experimentation and collage techniques, the collection features unconventional shapes, capturing the fish’s unique forms and survival adaptations. It’s a tribute to individuality and resilience.

Experiments/Collages

I started with draping random pieces of fabric on a half-scale mannequin, making anything I wanted.

I would then take pictures of these shapes, isolate them in Adobe Photoshop and start making digital collages with these shapes.

I also applied this technique to paper. Paper is a lot stiffer and I was able to make more angular shapes with it.

However, in the end I decided I liked the softer shapes more than the really angular ones.

Print Experiments

For print making at first I tried to be inspired from the collages I had made. I liked the results it brought, but it felt too repetitive for me.

Then I looked for some fish with interesting stories/characteristics and decided I would draw them and distort them to make my prints, and I loved the result it gave me.