To The Eye is a knitwear collection inspired by the conceptual relationship between visual weight and physical mass. How can a large garment be 'lightened' in visual weight by a smaller garment with a greater visual presence? How can a single fold stand out amongst others through complex relationships of color and pattern? How can the eye be fooled, confused and pleased by contrasting combinations of colors and layering of prints and patterns?
Fundamental to the collection is a sense of wrongness. The soft hand of a fabric is distorted by thick painted prints, grids are disrupted by slight errors and the human hand, combinations of colors are vibrational yet satisfying; all to emphasize the contrast between the visual and physical qualities of the garments. Much of the collection was self-generated, with inspiration coming heavily from optical illusions I designed myself within my color palette, draping and consideration of the possibilites of knits.
Final garments fully photographed, here.
