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Ooohh Hiya!!!
So I have since wrapped up the workshops that have been running alongside my main project for the past month...on a weekly basis I have been inviting different groups of local children to the studio so that they can each make their own individual textile square to contribute to a final patchwork. It's been really fun and a great bit of variety from my usual sewing and designing!!!
It's been a great experience to also work with the
women from the village school and of course to interact with the kids in
creating something fun and colourful!!The teachers have been amazing in terms of helping me to integrate with the community and have been so incredibly welcoming~so it's been really awesome to work alongside them throughout the previous few weeks.
The main focus over the past couple of months has been on the production of the actual wearable art pieces which sit at the centre of all of my field research, collaborations and activities here in South Korea... it's nice to see the sleepless nights paying off as now the rail is starting to fill up so I'm really excited about the next phase of my project here! This involves working with various creatives on the documentation aspects of my project which will include photography and an animation collaboration! Really looking forward to seeing how the work develops in terms of creating further dimensions to the concept!
In other news....a Korean TV station rocked up to the studio this week to do an interview...aside from that it's been mainly all about the sewing this past week so I'm feeling pretty knackered and looking forward to catching up on some sleep!!!
So I will leave you with a couple of snaps from the final workshop!!!
Love and Sparkles,
Emma
xxx
Ooooh Hiya!!!!
Just a couple of updates of what has been going on!!! Not too much juicy gossip as these days the deadlines are ticking so, aside from sewing the new collection at all hours, there are not too many escapades to report on!!! Most recently I've been doing a lot of embroidery and hand embellishment work which makes for some super long, sewing sessions and plenty of bleeding fingers!!! I have also been continuing to collaborate with the staff at a local school and have churned out another phase of my workshop programme here! So I shall show you a few photos!!!!
The most recent workshop saw a larger group of children and also they were a little it older so I could be a bit more adventurous with the techniques I was teaching them!!!
I'm really enjoying doing to the workshops alongside my project as it brings a bit more variety to my work here and it's always fun to have the studio all lively and full of people getting crafty...!The downside was when I was setting up all of the fabrics and equipment that I actually encountered the BIGGEST of the spiders that I'm yet to encounter...this one was a different style to the others....this one was a lot more fluffy than I would have liked...looked like it was wearing a wig~ gross! So the spider scenarios continue... my fear of spiders is now 10 times worse than it ever was in the first place and now I'm trying various methods to defer these beasts...tea tree oil, jungle strength DEET, sound apps on my phone....sleeping with bobbles around the wrists of my pajamas in case they are lurking under the duvet..... endless techniques in the mix...
So anyway enough about spiders and that.... I'll leave you with a couple of photos!!!!
Ciaoooo!!!
Love and Sparkles,
Emma xxx
Hiya!!!
So today saw the start of some workshops at the studio that I'm doing with children from a local kindergarten! I'm actually doing several workshops alongside my main project and new collection in partnership with my residency here in South Korea
and this was the first in a series that I will be doing during the community based aspects of my projects here. It was really fun and today saw a bunch of 5 year olds getting crafty with the fabric~plenty of bright colours and sequins flying around the room!
Over the upcoming weeks I will be working with a few different groups in which everyone will be making their own square to contribute to a final patchwork!
It was really lovely to have them in the studio and really great for me to get to meet some of the local kids and work alongside Sophia, the teacher from the school!
The school have been hugely supportive during my rural adventures so it's really amazing to be able to work with them and I'm looking forward to the next workshop! The school itself is really great to visit, it's super colourful with Hello Kitty EVERYWHERE~and the kids and staff are incredibly friendly! There's always coffee, bananas and toast in the mix whenever I pop in to visit!
As I mentioned, people and the community are a core theme of my creative projects here, so it's great to experience more insight into this through hosting the workshops and actually interacting with the residents and local institutions.
Alright, so I'm off to tidy up all of the sparkles from the floor then crack on with my own sewing!!!! So I will leave you with a couple more photographs!!!
Love,
Emma xxxx
It's been a great experience to also work with the
women from the village school and of course to interact with the kids in
creating something fun and colourful!!The teachers have been amazing in terms of helping me to integrate with the community and have been so incredibly welcoming~so it's been really awesome to work alongside them throughout the previous few weeks.
