My project is named “invisible pressure”. I aim to express a kind of mental pressure by my garment. For many people who are really in deep pressure, or depressed, they just can’t perceive the huge pressure they bear, and they can’t express it to people, but only hides their own mental scars. The garment is a way to reveal this pain to the people, so that the pressure can be expressed.
When a certain idea, emotion or impulse of a person cannot be accepted by the superego, it is repressed into the unconscious in order to make the individual no longer have anxiety and pain because of it, which is a kind of unconscious and active forgetting and suppression. those who suffer the most pressure. Some people around me, including myself, have a lot of pressure built up inside, but no one to express it, no one understands it. Thus, I hope to express this type of pressure with my project.
I show this kind of pressure and entangled psychological state through the entanglement and pulling between fabrics and materials, and the effect of various forces. I don’t want to express it too directly. I used many special stitches and applied the pulling and squeezing feeling between elastic fabrics, non-elastic fabrics and knitted fabrics. The feeling of falling is used to express inner uneasiness, distortion, pressure, and depression. The corset shows the restraint on the body. The skirt uses fish bones and folds to highlight its heaviness to show the feeling of falling and pulling. The shaky knitted fabric with large needle holes in the middle shows that the string in the heart is about to break but It doesn’t feel broken yet.
