The process of making this collection was a difficult one when talking about love it has such a weight. Personally, I feel and believe that once you love someone you don’t stop, that love may change and shrink in size but it doesn’t disappear, not completely. So in talking about my own personal experience with love, it was difficult, but I wanted a collection that I felt was a reflection of my own state of being. But there is a lesson a teacher said to me that I wish I would have been more open to hearing. That was “don’t tell a story you haven’t finished reading or writing”. This collection was difficult to create and that definitely reflected in the overall outcome of it. I would hardly call this collection a success but I wouldn’t be quick to write it off as a failure either. It was more so a lesson into myself, teaching me about a lot of weaknesses that I thought I overcame or didn’t recognize were there. Especially since the process for this collection was any that I’ve ever done before. Ordinarily, I would look through images I feel are aesthetically pleasing and then try to form a concept based on these images. But instead, I dived back into poetry I had written and then found music I felt conveyed those same emotions. Then sectioning them off did not allow me to look at any images, but just to work from those feelings. It was a helpful and hurtful process because as I moved on from those places I felt the garments needed to move with me. Thus resulting in a lack of time and poor time management. I definitely plan to continue researching this process but with a more distant approach. As well as taking on some of the illustrations, and manipulations that didn’t end up in the final collection. It was a great process, hard that I wouldn’t necessarily do again but one that I am very glad I did.
