Tungsten Wonder

I’d like to start from something that I can’t really wrap my head around, a problem of which I’m not sure whether I’m able to solve it. Therefore I look for something challenging or something alienating.

For Tungsten Wonder I tried to use more literal references next to my abstract approach. The cinematic atmosphere of Dirk Braeckman’s photography invites you into a mood, an undetermined feeling. Intimate and most of all ‘ on the surface’ – on the skin. I wanted the clothes to be more personal, close to the body, being worn and wrinkled, yet also from the body in a way that shapes don’t follow the contours of the body. They’ve originated from a flat rectangular plane, as a reference to the sheets you find in a bedroom. I created shapes reminiscent of a duvet and worked with the border of a pillow case to create a silhouette that extends the body. I like the idea that the design continues the body in that sense, so the space between the clothes and the wearer becomes defined.

Photography: Mike Nicolaassen

Model: Maike