About Me
Hi, I'm Gaia from Accademia Costume & Moda and this is "JUNKYARD"
"JUNKYARD" wants to be a positive response to human expansion on the landscape. The starting point of this collection is Edward Burtynsky's large-scale aerial photographs, a wonderfully terrifying work, a natural world irreparably altered by humanity.The heart of the project is by the upcycling and creative reuse of the leather seats demolished cars.
The womenswear collection takes its motivations from the era in which we live, the era of the anthropocene. Today there is the need to apply a principle of responsibility to every gesture of man who must take into consideration the future consequences of his choices. Fashion clothes capture a moment in time and are quickly forgotten, but if that moment were not just one but many moments, a process of transformation: where the concept of Upcycling has its roots.
INSPIRATION
The human age
The starting point of the project are the large-scale aerial photographs by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. What we see in these shots is the transformation of some of the most devastating effects of human progress into jaw-dropping and inspiring images.
The aim of the project is to inform and involve the viewer through images in front of which it is difficult to remain indifferent. Nature becomes the protagonist through the prints on tulle inspired by the bark of trees, in contrast to the leather recovered from the junkyards, which represent a positive response to the destructive and indelible imprint that man is leaving on the planet in the Human Age.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
DETAIL
The leather assemblies represent an armor
like the airbag in automobiles, for the outside world, destroyed by modern man but also a way to cope with this problem. I used the leathers to create new shapes, reassembling the existing pieces, letting myself be guided by the original shape of the seat. In contrast to the stiffness of the skin, I used tulle to reproduce the lightness and softness of natural shapes, with prints and colors inspired by tree bark.
"What we give to the future are the choices we make today" Edward Burtynsky
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