Politics

For this project the theme was politics, which meant I has to look into political subject which interested me. I started off by researching a range of things that I felt interested in which included feminism, poverty and ethical trading. Which meant me looking at each subject and hoe it effects day to day living and/or sociality. 

From this  I started looking into racism and I quickly came to realise how broad that subject is. With learning this I then decided to look deeper into the subject and came up with the concept of "stolen treasures"  

I came across an online article called " should Africa take by their stolen treasures" which really gapped my attention as I didn't understand why that question was up to debate and was amused by comments on the article. 

With this I started looking more into the subject and I knew I wanted to make an ambitious print. I wanted to produce something which required thought, I liked the whole idea of someone wearing something not fully understand the meaning behind it unless you look deeper into it. With this I started creating prints and creating illustrations with it playing with different concepts. 

I find this project easy as it was something I was very interested in which meant it was a continuous flow. I'm still in the process of selecting my favourite print and manipulating the prints on Photoshop and then printing it into a range of fabrics to play with the texture and appearance of the prints.  I really enjoyed this topic as it was a way for us to make a politcal impact using fashion as a tool.