New Frontiers
S/S 11

Concept

The concept of my collection managed to touch upon a variety of different subjects. My starting point was a historical explorer ship in my hometown of Dundee - The Discovery. The general theme of voyages of discovery lead me to look at contemporary non-physical journeys within science & space. That then led me to analyse the super-symmetry theory of the Large Hadron Collider which then lead me to question symmetry in the human face. The Golden Ratio is a theory used by Steven Marquardt in which he claims that he most beautiful faces in the human race are perfectly symmetrical and fit the mask’s decagons and pentagons most closely. He has applied this theory extensively to celebrity faces and uses it as a reference point in his plastic surgery.Super Symmetry = Broken Symmetry ... And using this theory I began to take polaroids of some of my friend faces asking them to "break symmetry" within their facial expression. I produced a collection of geometrical drawings from each topic of research explored thoughout my concept to produce a range of digital prints, which I then further produced into this collection 'New Frontiers'.