For my protector/companion project, I created a giraffe-flamingo hybrid. I gravitated towards the giraffe since giraffes are very quiet, gentle creatures that would be a great companion figure. I then thought what attributes would help improve the giraffe’s abilities and make them more protective without making them menacing creatures. I decided to give the giraffe …
For our final, I immediately jumped to a dancing bird-flower-human creature inspired by Hieronymous Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. Partway through constructing the form, I realized that I didn’t feel protected or a sense of companionship with my creature, so I decided to scrap what I had done so far and start from scratch. I …
Process Photos Meet Stego Elli! Stego Elli is a combination animal of a stegosaurus and an elephant. It also has Eeyore’s tail. When I first learned about this assignment, my instinct was to go through a list of animals that won’t look too strange when combined. So what I ended up doing was manipulating existing …
For my mending project, I decided to revamp a top that I was originally going to donate. I cleaned out my closet last month and haven’t had the chance to donate all the clothes I cleaned out yet because of everything going on with Covid-19 so I picked out a top to improve. I chose …
Mending – Tyler Koh For my mending project, I decided to use an old piece of t-shirt I had that I would be willing to cut out. I did not have a “naturally worn” piece of clothing, thus decided to create a patch design with the skill I learned in class. I created a circle …
The object I chose to mend was my favorite jacket. It’s a jacket that’s been with me for a long time, and has a lot of memories attached to it. I must’ve gotten it around 2012, after participating in a film shoot for Revolution, where all the extras were dressed in similar Converse clothes, but …
I bought these pair of jeans on sale for $5. Probably my favorite purchase, and my favorite pair of jeans. I wore them almost every day of sophomore year, I stopped when small holes and frays appeared. I approached mending these jeans in two different ways. For the fraying in the …
For this mending assignment, I didn’t have any sentimental or valuable clothes with me that I wanted to mend or embellish, so I focused on a practical repair and functional mending so I could practice my hand sewing skills. My first project I focused on was repairing a torn sleeve on a button-down shirt. The …
For this project, I chose to mend a tank top that my mom has owned since 1985. She wore it in high-school and college, and I continued the tradition. In the picture above, my mom had just graduated from college and went on a trip to Venice with her friends. Here she is 21 years old, …