MUTANT - idea blog 1

I recently came up with an idea for my project. I would like to feature flowers in my mutant. I am a floristry student studying the Pearsons Commercial Design Certificate at the Pearsons School of Floristry on Oxford Street, Darlinghurst. I am in my final semester (it is a one year course) and I feel that I could use my floristry skills to create something interesting. One of my friends said that many people would probably use flowers, but I feel that I can bring something different to the project as I have wiring, handtied and floral foam skills, and I am familiar with the variety of flowers at the Flower Market in Flemington. These are images of some of my work from the past three semesters:

I was inspired to use flowers in my mutant project because last week I found a drawing that I did in 2007.

The drawing was inspired by a well-known illustrator. Unfortunately I am unable to remember her name, but in her drawings she always featured young women with koi fish and the ocean in their hair. The woman's hair in my image is inspired by the line work and spirals in Vincent van Gogh's painting, Starry Night, and the album artwork from The Vines' second album, Winning Days.

Because of this drawing that I did, I thought of perhaps creating a mutant that is an earth goddess with hair made of flowers and foliage, thus rendering it an organic being. Botticelli's infamous painting, Primavera, reminds me of such goddesses.

Ever since Sophia Coppola's film, Marie Antoinette, was released in 2006, I have always been interested in very big hair in images. The thought of creating hair entirely out of flowers and leaves, just like in my drawing, would be an exciting challenge.

In addition to floral hair, I have also always been captured by floral clothing and imagining an entire human body covered and made of flowers. I found some images from Jil Sander's Spring 2011 collection that featured florals. The second image, in particular, is inspiring because I can imagine constructing an entire mutant out of flowers.