This sketchbook documentation drafts my infatuation with wimples, a medieval headdress that often had interior supports to create a winged silhouette. Here I begin to study this winged shape and discover how the winged presence represents an angelic quality. From this, it is beautiful to distort, or even taint, the winged frame, seeing how it can become swallowed and engulfed in on itself. Each draping is created with a scalene triangle-shaped muslin. Working within the boundary within this shape allowed me to create something I had never before.
On this sketchbook page, I became inspired by the concept of levitation and walking on water. I wanted to highlight the foot, and make an illusion that it was not just walking on the ground but rather floating just above it, or skipping across a lake.
For my first CAD rendered sneaker design, I wanted to embrace the advantages of the technology and design a futuristic shoe for a futuristic human. Perhaps a perfectly engineered shoe equipped with multiple functions. The wings could rotate to be more aerodynamic, or flutter to increase speed. I enjoyed focusing on abstract yet symmetrical formations that are frozen on a page, but still capture a breadth of movement and atmosphere. This is what lead me to my experimental design formation for my sneaker.
