Blouse

The archival pigment Limited Edition Giclee print is the outcome of partnerships with the WOMANKIND Worldwide and the Forensic Scientist Alison Fendly. The print depicts a 'hyper real' image of a life-size reclaimed women's blouse. The original art piece was created using archival plant matter from the Natural History Musuems' Herbaruim. *1 Sublimation printing is used; a process where solid dye vaporises, both physically embossing the cloth and depositing a dyed residue were the plants and cloth touch. The method is specifically chosen to explore ideas around fragility, both physically and psychologically and the memories and experiences that may be left behind on the clothes we wear. The dead plant material, in contact with the cloth for only a matter of seconds, transfers its skeletal structure, imprinted onto the inside of the blouse like a blush of hypostasis. *2 *1 Utilising pressed plant matter, from across the World with some originating from 1946 from the London Natural History Museum, Herbarium. *2 Hypostasis often known as lividity, is blood accumulated in capillaries and small veins at death, they manifest on the skin as a purple blue colour, usually apparent within half an hour to two hours after death, fully developing within 12 hours.