As an artist, I feel as if I am always skimming the horizon for floating bits and emergent patches or swatches of inspirational materials. This fragmented way of gathering or synthesizing ideas and imagery seems the most natural to me.
I have always worked this way – whether drawing or creating collages, film or photo editing, building floating structures, walking the land, or as an art director/producer.
I like to think about the relationships between things, but I also like to imagine how a narrative might be fashioned out of seemingly disparate and unrelated forms.
I collect or document images this way, imagining while photographing an object, surface, or view how it might (intuitively) relate to something else in the archives.
This way of working is reminiscent of my past jobs or tasks of creating mood or story boards for multimedia experiences. These new poetic collections defy the usual fashioning rules or the goal of a specific narrative.
These images include recent work or forms that I have documented to consider how ‘fragmented fashion’ might suggest a more imaginative state for donning change.
[ all images: Abigail Doan studio ]