I was watching some anime and i saw a japnese advert and i was suprised by how bazaar the marketing idea was. Japanese are always coming Up with the weirdest concepts. I was really drawn to the colour and imagery behind the ad. I wanted to investigate further. I really liked the aesthetic so I wanted to look at the history. I they started watching lists of old videos of japnese adverts from around the 1970 - 1980. The colours and imagery did not disappoint 

. One of the weirdest ones was an advert for yoghurt was some cows singin karaoke. I found it so funny and so was interested As to what stimulated the thought presses behind these ads. 

A lot of the adverts where inspired by anime. Anime is a large part of japnese culture and not only for entertainment but also Seen in other areas ofsociety, for examples most companies have their own anime mascot and manga drawings are used as signs and posters all around the country. The anime industry is huge. I have personally grown up watching anime and many of my ideas have been inspired by the concepts of anime. 
due to being animated there is no limitation to the ideas that can be developed and some of the most amazing storie lines, characters and concepts come out of anime. A good example is spirited away and the monsters and fantasy it created. 

Whenever i have traveled and stayed in japan I have always made a conscious effor to visit old houses and historical landmarks. I’m drawn mainly to the hoses beasuse i think there is something very intimate about being in some ouse when the house is no longer used. 

However in japan most old grand houses have beautiful gardens. These gardens are truely a work of art. Most japnese gardens are designed to be looked at and observed rather than played in - whic is almost sad, however their beauty and delicacy is truely breathtaking. Everything is positions with amazing amount of persition, all surroundings are taking into account. 

Many gardens have water features to and the sense of sound to the overall vibe. 

Another thing is the zen gardens - a sea of small pebbles racked into patterns with larger moss rock protuding out like little islands. This gardens are the utopia f symbolysum each rock position and each movement matters. Thes gardens are made to be sat and stared at for hours, to alm and focus the mind. 

I REMBER as a child i was always exstreemly high energy and would never shut up but when my mum sat me down on the porch of these old houses i would go commpleately silent and still just focusing on all the little details and beauty of the gardens i would particularly love it when it rained. I was sat comforted by the porch and the warm humid air , but just beyond y feet raindrops where trickling down the rocks, I between smal sprouts and into the stone sea. 

These gardens have always MENT a lot to me and i want to try and bring this feeling of tranquility into London. 

I’m thinking of making large concreate zen garden slabs the shape of tatami matts, however this will be very hard to put together and really heavevy. I think ill make the initial shape out of wood so its hollow and not as heavy then i can put a thin layer of oncreate on top and rack the shapes in as its drying so it has the same effect but not the material. Also if i used concreate on such a a scale I’d have to do steal re endorsements so it didn’t break in half. The mass of concreate and material would be really bad on the environment as it cant be reused or recycled. 

I’m going to make a miniature versuion and use plaster of Paris to see how it dries and how long to leave before getting out the rack out. I have previously used concreate and plaster so I’m with familiar with these materials and on a basic level they react basically the same. 

Japan culture is rich. Another area that has remained surprisingly relevant is the cloths. Not many cultures still wear their tradional clothing. In japan for festivals and events people will wear their yukatas and kimonos . To me these cloths are stunningly beautiful both the shilouett and the fabrics used. 

So much time and though is put into each design . I want to further look into this area of the culture. 

I did lots of experemantal collages, combing all areas i have look into and been interest4ed in. Lots of the advert screen shots looked really really affective juxtaposing the industrial city of Tokyo. I really liked taking sections out of contex and putting stuff where it shouldn’t be. Some of the images came out really chotivc and intense and some made more sense as a collage than as the original weird concept the created had been going for. I was really able to look into he relevances of space. I was particularly able to explore the scale off tami matts with this. 

To make my mini ze garden mom up i needed to experement with the plater and it setting it one and the point at which it is best to make the marks so that they are vivid enough to see but not so vivid as to take away the smooth authenticity of the original image. 

I also will have to add additional strength to the pater block - I will add yarn throughout the structure. 

after experimentation; 

leave plaster for 5 mins and then make the lines use ink a fork, this fully mimics a rake as all the prongs are equally distanced apart. 

I also tired to make the circles shapes however they came out very messy. I decided to alter the original plan and add small rocks to get the garden effect. The rocks where made up of smashed up concrete balls. 

After i made my 4 blocks i arranged them to mimic th layout of he most common arrangement of tatami mats. I then photo shopped them an put them over the top of city shapes to emphasise the significance of the old to the new 

I had a fashion interview so i had nothing garment related in my current portfolio so I wanted to create some looks ......

I had recently watched a documentary on tea picking and I was really drawn to the art of it and how majestic it looks and the method behind it. I have also been to many many tea plantations in my life all across Asia. They have always been some of my favourite places, hidden away at the top of mountains, curling and bending around the hills like rivers. I also love how moist and rainy they are. Rain has alaways been my favourite weather and the water makes the plantation glisten like emralds. 
I wanted my outfit to reflect the tea plantations and the clothing they wear. 

This Easter i was in Croatia, the capital city , Zagreb, is famouse for being a city of grafetie ad tagging. I absolutely love the colours and shapes that can come out of random tags. At the same time i was Alos looking into traditional japnese clothing due to a visit to R&A in the japnese section. I think their traditional robes are so of the most beautiful things out there. 

As i was looking at the robes i felt they that aloot reftected the tagging of the Zagreb streets in the way that there is a beautiful sense of perpouse in every mark or such. And also the colours. I wanted t use this combination of street art onto a tradional garment. 

Finally I mobbed all the ares that i had look Intto to create 7 looks all focusing more heavily on Uranian areas but esanitallyy all coming from the same starting point. All looks also included the pattern i deigned as well as the same colour poet and use of chain an elastic to create a bellowing effect. All my looks are baggy and oversized this mimics my own personal steal an how i like to dress.

i have now made a large sheet of fabri with  my pattern on it and i want to try and make some areas of my designs. 

Due to the virus i was sadly unable to make any of my designes so to bring closure to that area of my project i want to try and make a small sculpture at home. I decided on my favourite look - the straw hat KOMUSO munk inspired look. I took the concept of the basket head and tried to make it into a sculpture. 

I ordered some plaster online as this is the material i ammost confident in and i love how it reaches and oaks. I sat the shade of the hat using a glass and draping cling film over it and pouring plaster into the cling film bowl. This actually turned out surprisingly well. I then painted the iconic demons onto the plaster. 

The plaster shapes reminded me of kodoma (Japanese entree spirits) that i had seen in studio Ghibellines film princess monoke. So i decided to take them outside and photograph them in nature this came out really well and emphasised the lint of mixing the city itch tradional but now the opposit, nature and tradition which seem to work harmoniously together. 

I them photoshopped the shapes onto different scenarios, the shapes see end to complement and work with all images weather int was human or industrial, modern or old. 

Before corona my main material of focus was definatly concreate, over always bee interested in how it looks and how it imidetaly feels industrial and urban. 

Now i no longer have access to workshops or  a place to buy it i will go back to use in plaster as it is possible to cast objects at home in plaster. I can always add black acrylic to get the plaster a con-create gray however I don’t think it is essential.concret and platster are Ismail are iiin how they set and how they are used to mould so i think it should be fine. The main issue i will have will not be able to make moulds as I don’t have Latinate or clay or any shapes to dole from so i will have to find objects i can cast from however i think this is. Exciting and adds some excitement and i will have to coprimise more but i look at objects that i otherwise my not of thought of.

With the recent events i wanted to try and make some work in response. Strangely enough one of the things i thought was oddly topical was large platform snadeles. Retrospectively this doesn’t make so much sense. I read somewhere on line that part of the reason it was spreading so much was beach it was picked up on please shoes and then taken into the House. So a logical way to get around that would be to lower te surface area in contact with the ground. This had me looking at traditional japnese shoes, these are wooden flip flops that are platooned and have very little area in contact with the ground. I also though the look of them was very aesthetically pleasing. 

I combined the silhouette of the saddle with a person who is fully coved in a biohazard drape so only the platform saddle that he is balanced on is clear.  

I honestly had no idea how i could make his into a sculpture, idealaly i would like to make a concreate model about the size of a person that I I s a tower bloom but is actually a detailed model of repeated doors ate different ages with stair cases running though it. 

However i know this is cunetly impossible so i though of other ways, origonly i thought i could make it out of cardboard form boxes however it just looked really messy and I couldn’t get e nought detail. 

My sister happened to bring home some white modding clay from hr architecture corse and as a pro building model maker i asked her what she thought the bst way to go abut it would be. 

So i used the white clay to make a 4 faced buiding then stuck tracing paper on the face of each individual room to try and mimic the walls. The clay imidiatly lost its instal structure and started tho drop and sag. Retrospectively I actually really like that it came out that way, it mimics the feel of a distopian bulding snuggling to stay up.