Riitta Inkonen and Marie O'Connor Costume Workshops

Yesterday, tomorrow and Friday we have awsome costume workshops with Riitta Inkonen and Marie O'Connor!

These are super useful in terms of thinking and creating. Yesterday we went round the class and explained our primary needs and costume designs. It became obvious that thinking needed to extend past what things/doing you 'need' to WHY that is. For example, people said a primary need was their laptop, when really it's company, communication, information, comfort.

These two ladies give such good advice and input. I feel like we would improve as people if they were around more.

We did exercises like drawing ideas and connections from a word from our list of needs for five minutes solid, on paper stuck to the wall, fast. Or getting in groups and acting out a word, and the rest of the group had to guess what the word was.

http://www.riittaikonen.com/projects/house-martin/

Primary Needs

We have a new project at Camberwell to design a costume based on our five primary needs.

I can't quite sum up my needs but there's a rough list (in black the need, in colour what this includes)

Mobility Health, Intellect, Communication, Travel +Knowledge
Company//Communication// Interaction Health, situation, knowledge and intellect, response to environment, progress and development, identity
Comfort Health, vision, hearing, senses in general, warmth, company, food, situation
Fun//Creating identity, company, progress
Nature// Organic food, situation,environment, health


As you can see they all cross over quite a lot. The more I think these over, the more they could be narrowed and narrowed. Well being, company, progress, identity could sum it up rather well. Maybe these needs will need re-listing. The thing is, these needs have to be translated visually into a costume, so maybe mentally it makes sense to refine and refine them, but as they are already quite refined maybe my original list is far enough in terms of having ideas left to work with that aren't so BROAD.

ETCHASKETCH

Today I did my first etching ever. It was super. But I only had time to make one print, and it needs to dry for a week so I can't show you yet.

Treasure Hunting

I babysat on Thursday. We drew a treasure map.

Boyz

I'm a bit tired of naked ladies now.