| The Final Project – PAD100 |
| Student Name | Amit Sukhdevbhai Mandaliya |
| Student I’D | 133591 |
| Module Title | PAD100 |
| Module Theme | Final Project |
| Pathway | Pre-Master Fashion Design |
| Tutor Name | Julie McCarthy |
| Semester | 3rd |
| Project Title | Mandala into the Design |
Project Description:
My project for this semester is the extended project of last semester. In the last semester it was all about the research work, ideas, analysis and how I can connect two different art form together. In this semester I will be developing those ideas into the physical work. My project theme is “Mandala into the design”. The concept of the theme is to combine two different arts into one and create some unique piece of design. The design will contain Mandala which will be the main star for this project and there will be different design of pattern sketches in which I will be putting my Mandala Art.
Information Regarding Mandala:
This is my WordPress Link to find more about Mandala Art…
Research/Studies:
Whenever one start working on any project the most important thing, they come across is research work. Research plays a key factor role in any project work, without research and identifying the proper information of that art form one cannot flawlessly complete their project.
Primary Studies:
For me it become now no longer tough to discover the Secondary studies however locating a Primary studies become pretty tough due to the fact records of Mandala is of 560 BC. So, only a few humans had been aware about this artwork shape but however I superintend to gain as much as knowledge about primary studies. In the last semester one of my tutors advised me to go to the priest for the primary research as this art form is connected with religion and one of the key role Mandala plays is that it used for meditation so that help me a lot. In the semester going to the priest didn’t help me a lot due to the pandemic but in this semester as of now the situation being stable, I gain lots of information regarding Mandal. I also visited some of the museum and gallery which helps me a lot to gain more knowledge regarding the concept which I was looking for.
Secondary Studies:
Secondary studies were not that much arduous as of most of the knowledge are there on the internet as well as on social media. Researching about the Mandala was very interesting and fascinating as I was searching about something which I was doing from so long but haven’t studies about it just doing the art form that was shameful, but now I have each and every knowledge regarding Mandala. There were many artists in whole world that were master in Mandala art and also other artist who used Mandala with different art from.
Artist and their Critical Analysis:
Jamie Locke:
Jamie Locke is a self-learner artist, she is adept at taking an imaginative and prescient and turning it into reality. The factor which stimulated me approximately her is her starvation for growing artwork and exploring unique techniques and mediums. Whenever she is growing any artwork, her preference is to constantly breathe definitely into the sector and hopes that her introduction will inspire, inspire and uplift. She began out growing Mandala in 2007, stimulated through the conventional Indian artwork shape of mehndi and its layout her paintings contain from growing henna layout on pores and skin then ink on paper, to carving elaborate layout onto wood, metal, glass and stone the use of hand-held rotary tool.
Jamie Locke Art, (2021). Handmade Mandala by Jamie Locke. Available at: <https://www.jamielockeart.com/portfolio-items/carvedmandalas/> [Accessed 12th April,2021]
Stephanie Smith:
Stephanie makes use of numerous portray and drawing substances to create her distinctive mandalas. She additionally thinks out of the field and models whatever she occurs to discover into impromptu mandalas, with frequently whimsical results. For her Mandala is healing, transformative and addicting. She started mandala art in 2007 after seeing one artist post a Mandala that he had made on the photo sharing website. Drafted freehand with colored marker, he explained that it was a complete meditation in one session that you started in the center and worked your way out and till date she has created over 1500 mandalas in the past 4 years. She also been in Ted-talks.
Art is fun, learn to draw & paint with Thaneeya, (2021). Mandala Art by Stephanie Smith. Available at: <https://www.art-is-fun.com/mandala-art/> [Accessed 12th April,2021]
Author Louis:
Author Louis Contemporary French Street artist who used mandalas to influence his work. His designs mostly feature the Buddhist lotus flower, and his work appears everywhere from sidewalks to abandoned buildings. urban zone. He works as if he were working in the sand, although, being in public space, his pictures only last a moment before they disappear.
SSMTWTFSS ARTISTSDAY MTWTFSSMT, (2021). Author louis Ignore. Available at: <https://www.artistaday.com/?p=24845> [Accessed 12th April, 2021]
Lize Beekman:
Lize Beekman is a South Africa based musician and artist who is reinventing the old traditional art of the mandala into something more modern and unique. He works with pencil, oil ink, and sometimes even gel to create his works. All of his mandalas are extremely detailed, but in their very own and individual way.
Mandala Art by Lize Beekman (2021). Colour with Claire, Available at: <https://www.colourwithclaire.com/latest/mandala-art-by-lize-beekman> [Accessed 25th April,2021]
Alex Hamilton:
Alex Hamilton is a very contrasting artist from Arthur in that he focuses on assimilate color into his work. Although he is also a contemporary artist. Hamilton unbolted his own gallery in 1997, which specializes in young emerging artists, and it is clear from the images in his work that he likes to work with acrylic on canvas. Since he’ve never used this method to create mandalas, he finds it very interesting to see the effect of it and although some details are lost in using color, he feels like the color brings light to the work and he think this is very interesting.
Alex Hamilton Mandala,2021. Available at: <https://www.alexhamilton.co.za/mandala.html> [Accessed 25th April, 2021]
Dilogo Khyentse Rinpoche:
His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche changed into one of the main masters of the pith-commands of Dzogchen (the Great Perfection), one of the foremost holders of the Nyingmapa Lineage, and one of the best exemplars of the non-sectarian subculture in current Tibetan Buddhism. He changed into a scholar, sage and poet, and the trainer of many vital leaders of all 4 faculties of Tibetan Buddhism. He was using Mandala for meditation, through the Mandala there is great work done in Jampa’s where they do this meditation process through Mandala.
Boeddhisme: Jampa’s Mandala, Meditatie en ontmoeting, 2021 Available at: < https://jampasmandala.wordpress.com/2004/06/06/hello-world/ > [Accessed 25th April, 2021]
Kristy Whitelook:
Kirsty uses recycled and reclaimed materials in response to the throwaway culture of consumption. Her work is conceptual and uses the overlooked qualities of selected print materials. Challenge prejudice about embroidery and explore the potential to convey a social message through the use of discarded household items, including plastic bags and newspapers, and using them as embroidery format. She works challenges traditional connotations of embroidery and seek to communication messages of social responsibility through the use of recycled and reclaimed materials. The concept of the of the “throw-away culture” is a constant and central theme. She uses plastic carries bags, news paper and discarded household items as a format for embroidery.
Kristy Whitelook(2021). Available at < https://kirstywhitlock.weebly.com/about.html > [Accessed 1st May, 2021]
Meredith Woolnough:
Meredith Woolnough’s elegant embroidery designs capture the beauty and fragility of nature in knotted threads. The colorful structures of organic forms float effortlessly above the surface, elegant and charming. With freehand machine embroidery and dissolving materials, Meredith recreates nature. The delicate application of the simplest of stitches has been used to create wonderful embroidered nets that worship the beauty of life itself and inspire us to delight in the world we live in.
Meredith Woolnough. (2021). Embroidery art for nature lovers. Available at < http://meredithwoolnough.com.au/ > [Accessed 1st May, 2021]
The Finale outcome:
On the rationalization of my last semester research, studies and my escapade, I get through the combination of the Mandala and design in method of the formation technique in the final outcome. I have never thought that I will ever use Mandala in any other art form but now I’m using my own Mandala in my design that is something excited and new journey for me. The thing which I have to work on was to research about the root of Mandala in the deep down the earth as the history is from 560 BC, then I also need to look through the artist that have down some unique work in the field of Mandala and also for the artist that have been combining the Mandala in another art form. While combining two different art form one has to keep their mind open as of while doing something like this sometimes combination ruin whole project. This was the impenetrable affairs but when you really deep down into it nothing can stop one to get your best version out of it. It took me lots of time in the research work as of for me it was not difficult to find the Secondary research but finding a Primary research was quite difficult because history of Mandala is of 560 BC. So, in that case very few people were aware of this art form but any how I manage to took the primary research.
Once I completed my research section then I need to concentrate on the design because as I mentioned earlier its difficult to combine two different art form so in this the placement of the Mandala in my design/outfit was the second tough part. As I have to keep in my mind that Mandala don’t overlap the outfit structure as well as outfit doesn’t imbricate the Mandala art. But I passed this hurdle to the placement set in the perfect way and once the placement was completed it was looking way better than what I though.
Lastly, the color combination for the outfit. I was supposed to use black and white color for my design which was decided in last semester by me but in this semester at the end I change my mind and add floresan color because my project will be over in summer so in that case, I can connect my outfit design with summer collection. For this I have done many experiments with different color combination. I combined different color of contrasting texture to identify weather that color out lashed the effect into the design. Finally, I got some perfect combination color that I can put onto my design.
Now I have some prominent design that have all the stuff that was in my ideas as well in my mind. I’m very much content with my work as contemptuously present my work in real world.
Critical Reflection:
The actual meaning behind critical thinking is creative thinking, ability to solve problems, asking thoughtful questions, self-evaluating, open-mindedness and analytics thinking and when I look behind my project work, I can say that all the above-mentioned thing were there in my work. I have done creative thinking by combining Mandala into the design which was the idiosyncratic because while doing secondary studies I got to know that none or very few artists have merged Mandala and fashion design together and now I’m one of them. I also have asked many questions to my tutor at the end of the semester to keep my work look ethical.
Every time I start something there is also a thought in my head that shapes this, I have to discover something unique and I have to learn new things from this project or object. I have been doing mandala since last year 2 but while doing extensive research on mandala I knew that this art has a father but no one knows the founder of mandala It was used for meditation purposes and last but not least it has been used in different cultures for different ones Purposes and used in different ways.
Secondly, workshop plays an important role in my project because when I decided back then to use mandala on fabric it was just an idea, but there were a lot of other things that really puzzled me about how I was going to get this art on fabric. We have a Bhavik workshop in this workshop, the topic which we were discussing was screen painting at that point, I decided that I would use screen painting to get my art onto canvas, but after that and after doing extensive research, I also learned that I can use embroidery as well and it will also give me a three-dimensional look that further enhances my design. So yes, the workshop helps me to resolve a lot of my doubts.
Many time this thing happens with many of the humans, after certain point they give up on the thing which is not in their hand or out of their potential but in my case giving up was not an option I have made my mind that any how I have to collaborate Mandala and fashion design simultaneously. For me, when I take on some work, I never think about quitting, no matter how difficult or impossible the job is, so quitting is not an option for me.
Now when I look through my critical journey it seems like a mountain climbing, when you start climbing you feel excited then in the middle it seems arduous and feel like abandon and reinstate, after that when you are near to complete climbing you discem a delightful and finally when you veritable the climbing the merriment comes inside you that is some great adulation of victory.
Now I’m very much triumphant with my work and I think when any person looks through my work they will also feel the same as me and as a fashion designer I will always look through, how I can I give customer new design with unique concept and as of now I have done some very well work in terms of merging “Mandala into the Design”.
Bibliography:
En.Mandala.org.2021 – Wikipedia Available at < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandala> [Accessed 15th August, 2021]
Mandala Art.2021 – Artzolo.com Available at < https://www.artzolo.com/mandala-art> [Accessed 15th August, 2021]
The Mandala company.2021 – Art of Mandala, Geometric Abstraction, Sacred Geometric. A North European Artist specializing in geometric paintings and mandala art. English born Stephen Meakin is exploring ideas about abstract-art-pattern, as visual medicine, oculi (architecture), mandala, sigil and yantra. Available at < https://www.themandalacompany.com/> [Accessed 15th August, 2021]
The new Indian Express (Newspaper Article). 2020. Young Kerala painter’s devotion to Buddhist-era Mandala art gets her into record books. Available at < https://www.newindianexpress.com/good-news/2020/nov/15/young-kerala-painters-devotion-to-buddhist-era-mandala-art-gets-her-into-record-books-2223706.html> [Accessed 15th August, 2021]
Style2design.com.2021. WHY THE MANDALAS ARE IN FASHION. Available at< https://style2designer.com/fashion-designers/fashion-forecasting/mandalas-fashion/> [Accessed 15th August,2021]
Kristy Whitelook (2021). Available at < https://kirstywhitlock.weebly.com/about.html > [Accessed 1st May, 2021]
Meredith Woolnough. (2021). Embroidery art for nature lovers. Available at < http://meredithwoolnough.com.au/ > [Accessed 1st May, 2021]
Boeddhisme: Jampa’s Mandala, Meditatie en ontmoeting, 2021 Available at: < https://jampasmandala.wordpress.com/2004/06/06/hello-world/ > [Accessed 25th April, 2021]
Mandala Art by Lize Beekman (2021). Colour with Claire, Available at: <https://www.colourwithclaire.com/latest/mandala-art-by-lize-beekman> [Accessed 25th April,2021]
SSMTWTFSS ARTISTSDAY MTWTFSSMT, (2021). Author louis Ignore. Available at: <https://www.artistaday.com/?p=24845> [Accessed 12th April, 2021]
Art is fun, learn to draw & paint with Thaneeya, (2021). Mandala Art by Stephanie Smith. Available at: <https://www.art-is-fun.com/mandala-art/> [Accessed 12th April,2021]
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