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I could look at objectification in another way. By focussing on the<br />
details, the folds and creases, buttons and openings, stitching and<br />
pleating, the <strong>for</strong>ms and textures of materials and how they<br />
interact with the human body. Seeing the person in those terms,<br />
especially in the montaged manner I was intending to portray<br />
them could be construed as a <strong>for</strong>m of objectification. However in<br />
the manner in I wished to portray them, much like a Dada<br />
montage I wanted to throw open the meaning of relationships to<br />
clothing and the wearer to new interpretations.<br />
Though I was really not sure where this project was going my<br />
intention all along was to act experimentally with the working<br />
assumption that my collaborations would feed back to me the<br />
direction towards some kind of meaning involving the<br />
relationship between people and their <strong>clothes</strong>.<br />
world, a world where people felt they needed to fit in and stand<br />
out in varying measures, and that my exploration of re-montaging<br />
these conditions was intended to look at the fragility of this state.<br />
Through these initial explorations into the photographs I would<br />
ultimately <strong>take</strong>, my partner Freya collaborated in testing some of<br />
the ideas by posing with ill-fitting <strong>clothes</strong>. What emerged give me<br />
new areas <strong>for</strong> thought, research and experimentation.<br />
Many of us are dependent on these props to convey ourselves to<br />
the world. Without these outward portrayals who exactly are we?<br />
Our self-protection against the misconstrued views of others and<br />
our sense of our own narrative is confused if not lost.<br />
However some thoughts at this point seemed to be adhering to<br />
the project and vulnerability was one of these. I began to think of<br />
<strong>clothes</strong> as armour which protected the wearer from the outside