COSY x SOULL - A Creative Mistake

“A journey through the eyes of the artisan. This collection reflects the path that an artist has to overtake, their experience along with the functional and emotional stages to reach their creativity. Perceptibly, this is a level of vividness imagination and confluence of intrinsic motivation that is witnessed through the creative process. The cognitive style is forsaken and the divergence in thinking unfolds a cosmos of non-linear solutions, breaking one’s mental barrier.”

Artists need to unveil their true artistic nature, and there discover a wonderful source of wisdom, compassion, and power to bring their artistic vision to bear on our world.

-      One needs to have confidence in one’s own spirituality and artistic ability to share that “great mystery” in a unique, meaningful way. One should not try to replicate the artistic vision or works of others, but rather trust their own inner wisdom for inspiration. The mind must be empty and open when approaching a blank canvas.

-      There may be some “plan” as to what is about to unfold in the creative process, but there is no predicting what will happen once brush meets canvas.

-      To generate works of art, an artist must focus on his or her creative expectation for their work. This is often a meditative process. Artistic expression and meditation practice are similar in many respects. The artist, like the person who meditates, must try to transcend their ordinary “regular reality” consciousness to explore the depths of creativity and compassion.

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 “There is wisdom in all creative works.” - Hildegard of Bingen

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What is the Creative Process?

1. Preparation: the mind prepares for the creative solution, which requires study and thinking intently on the subject—whether it be a musical composition, a new invention, a mathematical formula, or a business dilemma.
2. Incubation: a germination period follows. The person steps away from the problem and takes up some form of activity like daydreaming, walking, or meditating.
3. Illumination: often as a flash, a brilliant idea shoots across the mind, frequently during a mundane task or while one is involved with something else.
4. Verification: the idea is tested to determine its validity. The composition is scored; the mathematical formula, proven.

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Design Style Criteria:

• Balance: designs can be balanced vertically, symmetrically or asymmetrically
• Emphasis: creates a focal point or interest in colour, line, texture and design details
• Harmony: this is achieved when all elements and principles of design work well
• Proportion: relationship between different parts of the garment, equal or unequal
• Repetition: gives garments rhythm through colour, line and shape. It can be continuous line movement, graduated, radiated, unequal or uniform

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Design Approach for this project:

A simplistic nature of monochrome designs was followed as it allows you to make easy style choices and you can create so many different looks while at the same time keeping that retro look. When styling monochrome you have to keep the visual interest going by varying the textures within your look.

The following options were considered: leather-look options, patterns, patch work on t-shirts, or two-tones with sweatshirt.

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