The ideas on this project it's to research on a selected theme we are obsessed about, and collect 10 items related on this subject. Also do a written piece, and to imagine the muse we are designing for (it can be fictional, real, from the past , present or the future).
Then do visual outcomes for the portfolio and select a final design.
I have chosen personally Hiroshima, because I thought it would be good to remind people about what happened in the past, and also show that humans can have a big level of cruelty.
Except the gaz mask, I haven't find all the items unfortunately, I don't think it's legal to collect a bomb haha. Hopefully I can find something interesting in Vintage or Army shops in London...
I have finished the Written piece today, and I am proud to show you the story I've written.
It is very short, because we can't do more than 400 words, so I tried my best to make it as a intriguing and interesting story. It's the letter from a young girl who describes her day when the bomb has dropped in Hiroshima...
'The 6th of August 1945,
The impulse of telling you my story, is haunting me deliberately. So many souls are gone since this morning, but mine is still here. Writing has never been my vocation, but today is very different from what I usually do.
I live near the city Hiroshima, usually it's rare when I go outside, because people are like scary shadows for me. I am an orphan. Everybody around here sees me as a witch because the woman who gave me life was apparently a prostitute. My passion, the sewing machine, a gift from an old friend who died 7 or 8 years ago, it is the only tool that gives my satisfaction. It's such a joy to recycle kimonos, silk, komebukuro, and other materials into personalised outfits.
It was six in the morning. The sun arose earlier than usual with its beautiful gold colour incorporated in the blue poetic sky, which it was fascinating me so much because of the brightness.
I woke up very early as I was in the first steps of making a dark narrow skirt, I like having my own outfits. Everything was very quiet and normal until quarter past eight. Then something went through my mind, I don't remember what, and suddenly I felt a horrible wave of heat on me. The windows exploded for no reasons, with a deafening noise. I ran outside, there was no sun anymore, I only discovered a big yellow blind light with this noise that broken my ears.
It felt like the end of the world with the sun eating me.
Families, animals, houses, everything has been destroyed in the space of two minutes. I was walking slowly, it just felt like suddenly the world has never existed. I didn't understand why I didn't die too, or didn't have a single wound on me . As soon as I realised I couldn't do anything to help people or find survivors, my tears were running down on my cheeks for hours and it was strange because I felt my face burning at the end. I went back in my ruined house, and discovered that my sewing machine has miraculously survived, which gave me a little smile on the face.
Sensations all around my body kept going all afternoon, I closed my eyes to forget about it, and as soon as I opened them, I started to realise my ruined house was on fire. I was in the fire all afternoon, and didn't get burnt. Tonight I am still alive...
Hanako'
