Completed Work
Finally finished this work! Older posts about this project can be seen here-
For this project I worked around the theme of emotion. For the thirty days I documented and kept track of my emotional state. Every time I thought of it I would write down the time and a current word that described me. (Eg. 19:56- Anticipatory)
After a month of documenting my own emotion, I printed it on material that I then made into a garment I could wear. On the outside of the jacket beautiful things have been embroidered, such as birds and flowers and leaves. This signifies my own preference to project outward only the things that are beautiful and "nice", but not necessarily portray my true emotions and reactions. On the inside of the jacket is the printed material of how I felt every day, showing that what is real is often what we hide.
I feel that in our society we are taught to obscure our feelings and only project what we think others want to see. It is important to acknowledge the diverse range of emotions that human beings are capable of, and how we actually apply them to our environment. Communication is the key to human beings interacting in a healthy way, but communication gets halted when honesty is not applied to what we feel.