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White T: Fractal

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In using the body as a frame on which to hang a tessellated geometric garment, hundreds of lines of symmetry are introduced.

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A model shows the front of the garment: eight white triangular panels, five solid fabric and three latticed with smaller triangles. The model’s face is not visible, fading into the black background.
The model shows the back of the garment: eight white triangular panels, seven solid fabric and one, near the center, latticed with smaller triangles. The model’s head is not visible.
A single latticed triangular panel on a black background.
The model shows the front of the garment, now against a white background; the face remains invisible.
The model shows the back of the garment against a white background; the head remains invisible.

 

In this project, I took a single $5 white T-Shirt and modified it through cutting, gluing, and applying several different finishes. The aim of this piece is to emphasize symmetry by viewing the human body as a single mass. In using the body as a frame on which to hang a tessellated geometric garment, hundreds of lines of symmetry are introduced and composed over the wearer.

“White T: Fractal” was originally created in Professor Louise Harpman’s Fall 2019 Interdisciplinary Seminar: “Good Design: Objects, Bodies, Buildings, Cities.”

Photographs by Chanel Khoury (Steinhardt ’20)

 
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