- INSOMNIA -
midnight 4 a.m.
A room betrayed by sleep No dream And night is a grave opening, and the door is a cane of light and the chairs--no joy A phantom of sand obscures all their colors
A room-nothing in it except death reading its walls
- Adonis Selected Poems -
Concept
Insomnia has profoundly shaped my creative journey, inspiring this project to transform its emotional impact into fashion that provides security and healing.
By designing garments with enveloping qualities, I aim to create a cocoon-like experience that offers psychological comfort.
Carefully chosen silhouettes, materials, and textures evoke warmth, softness, and protection, counteracting the restlessness of sleeplessness.
Inspiration
My initial inspiration came from the distorted human figures in Schiele’s paintings, which reminded me of the curled, helpless body when one tosses and turns in bed, unable to fall asleep. Thus, I made a simple connection between this human posture and bed sheets.
Painting 1
-- 2 a.m.
I tried to depict the chaotic scene inside the brain during insomnia, with tangled lines and grid dots serving as a visualization of dizziness. This perfectly captures the surreal, ethereal feeling of the early hours of the morning.
Painting 2
Painting 3
--4 a.m.
After 4 a.m., everything feels as if it is sinking and falling. I wanted to present in my painting the state of thoughts plunging into darkness, with limbs lying numb on the bed, as if the body has already merged into the mattress.
I created a textured board, using materials such as cotton, gauze, and wax to produce a hazy and chaotic visual impression.
Inspiration
After determining the emotional tone of the project, I began my preliminary research. I wrapped bed sheets around the human body, posed in various sleeping positions, and recorded the flow of the sheet’s folds as well as the shapes formed by its overlap and wrapping around the body.
Primary Research
Primary Research
Fabric Research
I used soft white gauze as an experimental material, draping the folds around the human body to create a top.
While researching fabrics, I discovered that layering different colors of mesh over a base fabric produces distinct effects.
When transparent, stiff mesh is layered and pleated, it creates folds that are both translucent and clearly defined. Therefore, in terms of material selection, I decided on a combination of a stiff base fabric wrapped with mesh.
