Misha Black Graduate Booklet

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LOOKS HERO SIREN SAILOR PIRATE FISHERMAN CONCEPT STATEMENT MOODBOARD DEVELOPMENT Techincal drawings

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OCEAN

Like an ancient tapestry, this coat preserves a narrative. It tells a cautionary tale of the fate that awaits those who do not respect nature’s power. This was achieved through the use of a code of symbols. Pollution, warning signs, wrath, and finally decay are all depicted. As well as refernce to some mythical creatures of the sea, and above it all, the moon.

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SIREN

The siren; ethereal, bewildering, and cunning. She uses her siren song to lure lowly sailors into the depths of the ocean.

With the strength to tempt even the likes First you willofcome to the the great Odysseus, her deadly beauty Sirens who enchant all who tocome is a testament The Ocean’s power. near them. If any one unwarily draws in too close and hears the singing of the Sirens, his wife and children will never welcome him home again, for they sit in a green field and warble him to death with the sweetness of their song.

They sit beside the ocean, combing their long golden hair and singing to passing sailors.

But anyone who hears their song is bewitched by its sweetness, and they are drawn to that island like iron to a magnet. And their ship smashes upon rocks as sharp as spears. And those sailors join the many victims of the Sirens in a meadow filled with skeletons.

SAILOR

The naive sailor goes to sea to explore “whenever it is a damp, drizzly uncharted waters and to experience in my soul... whenever the romance of lifeNovember on the water. my hypos get such an upper hand However, the reality of such a lifestyle of me, that it requires a strong is not what meets the eye. Will they moral principle to prevent me from return with deliberately spun tales of their great stepping into the street, adventuresand or, do they tell the truth? methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time tozz get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs— commerce surrounds it with her surf. sight of land. Look at the crowds of

PIRATE

The romance of pirate life advertises freedom, “I’ve adventure, sailed the seas and great treasures. However the good and bad, and seen great perils of such abetter lifestyle are and worse, fair vast. Enemies of the weather law and ofand foul, proeachother, they must visions learn to berunning out, knives going, and what one with the sea. The ocean is an old Well, now I tell friend; understood andnot. respected.

you, I never seen good come o’ goodness yet.

Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don’t bite; them’s my views— amen, so be it.”

FISHERMAN

The fisherman lives off the land, using the ocean to his advantage.

But when does resourcefulness turn into greed? Their livelyhood depends on the sea but what happens when there is nothing left to take?

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

The tide lowers and heightens, waves form and crash, the ocean pushes and pulls; endless impermanence. Nature’s intent will always conquer. How naive and egotistical we must be to think we have reign over the Earth. We are powerless at nature’s mercy and yet we continue disrespecting it.

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is decaying and decay with it.

The collection, Waning Sea, explores this concept. Using a series of symbols which are derived from various oceanic textures and occurrences, this collection explores the complexity of cosmic insignificance in the face of nature’s power.

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SIREN

SAILOR

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FISHERMAN

MISHA SUMIKO BLACK WANING SEA

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PATTERNMAKING, CONSTRUCTION, TECHNICAL SKETCHES, ILLUSTRATIONS, MODEL SELECTION, ANIMATIONS, TEXTURES, AND PRINT DESIGN BY MISHA SUMIKO BLACK.

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PATTI MOORE LUCIANA FIELDER DHRUV SHUCHAK ANTOINETTE ALLENDE LUCAS FERNANDEZ ISABEL DUNBAR JOANNE BORGATTI

PHOTOGRAPHER MODEL (OCEAN & PIRATE) MODEL (SAILOR) MODEL (SIREN) MODEL (FISHERMAN) MAKE UP HAIR

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