A sense of place

For this project I was given a location and through primary research such as photography, drawing and textile work I recorded the location. The idea of this research was to investigate new and innovative shape, pattern, texture and colour combination.

From this research I took an interest in the amount of fences around. I loved the shapes they created when looking at them from different perspectives. But more importantly I was interested in what they symbolised. On one hand, one might look at them as symbolising feeling trapped and controlled as they are a way of keeping something in like animals. On the other hand they could symbolise security and protection which represents motherly behaviour.

I took this analysis and related it to the story 'One Flew over the Cuckoo Nest' by Ken Kesey. The link between the patient's feelings and the fence analysis are quite similar so I decided to design a uniform that the mental patients would wear in the hospital inspired by fences.