Lina Michal - I'm Not My Father's Son

1 Feb, 2012

Photographer: Kristian Löveborg

The core of the collection is about feeling insufficient and the frustration in knowing there is nothing you can do about it, because the problem itself is in your
very nature. Expressing the ambition of being something that can never be and the means you use to obtain something that is out of reach. The idea originally
springs from a personal, ever-present feeling of a father who seemed to long for a son that never was.

The issue of feminine versus masculine is addressed in the printed elements of the collection, based on the Barbara Kruger quote: "We won't play nature to your
culture." Within the print there are hundreds of images of nature and cultural references blended into something new, where they are not separate from one another.

The idea of covering up somethings true nature is used as a method of working, exercising this in the use of the materials; in layers, unable to cover up what is
underneath, because of holes or transparency. The idea unfolds within the manipulation of surface, with one material trying to be another material. A fabric ripped into strips to crochet with, as if it wanted to be a yarn. Cut peacock feathers posing
as sequins, where the cutting of a feather also takes it away from it's actual purpose, to fly with, making it something else, distant from it's natural state.
From a melancholic sense of inadequacy emerges something new, beautiful in its own failing.

Högupplöst bild

Kategorier: mode, Material 2012