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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

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