Project 03
Volcanic glass cools too fast to become crystal. Obsidian takes that edge, no one designed and no one softened, and builds four looks around it: dark, still, structural before it is beautiful.
The four looks
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Explore the looks: sketch to runway The specimen cardsObsidian does not decorate. It will not let you look away from what a garment actually is.
Volcanic glass cools too fast to become crystal. It skips the lattice, the ordered growth, the slow arrangement of parts, and sets as it is. What remains is entirely natural and breaks like something engineered, an edge no one designed and no one softened.
A fern grew in the dark with no intention of being looked at, and came out machined. A spring and a plant stem, laid on the same paper, confess to the same chemistry. Wire holds a shape it was never asked to hold, and precision arrives without anyone intending it.
Coil, spiral, branch: forms that organise a plant from the inside, lifted out of the research and set on the body. Not laid over the garment but risen through it, the structure beneath finally allowed to be seen. Nothing here is applied. Everything here is load-bearing.
A brass grid repeats without mercy; inside each cell, a mark that never repeats. Blacks and near-blacks, the register of high-contrast film, opened out through layered studies and cut with the cold gleam of metal. This is a palette that refuses colour and finds range anyway.
Obsidian runs across two landscape books that open away from each other. Book I carries the research, the boards and the prints; Book II carries the four looks, each with its runway shots and technical flats.
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