After 17 years...

Well it has been 17 years in the making. Today was the final critique in a journey I started in what now seems a lifetime ago. I have been haunted by the failure to achieve completion at DAAP in the Fashion Design program since 1994. Today, I presented my final design for review, and am a posting of this blog and a math final away from successfully completing my Bachelors Degree-at last, long last. As I reflect on the theme of my final design...Picking up the Pieces... I am blessed to have had taken the path which was laid out  for me. I never expected to be on stage at 41 years old defending a design while my 12 year old daughter sat and watched in the audience. I never expected to have her look so stunning in my designs that she actually takes my breath away. I honestly never figured I would have the courage or wherewith all to pick up the pieces and REvisit, Redesign and REclaim the confidence that I destroyed by giving up the first time around. I have been embarrassed and ashamed for 17 years for not finishing. I honestly never thought the pieces would fall into place. I have been reviewing my work over the years, old and new and see pieces of me that are strong and have endured...as my knitwear unravels...so has the shame. I am proud of my work, but more than that I am grateful that I had the opportunity to shred the shame and let my idea shine on stage, even if it was just in front of a dozen or so strangers.... I did it. I didn't wig out or cower in fear. I know God has a plan, even one for me, and believe that this is the beginning of his plan to re purpose me.

DDF AI Blackberry

The assignment for Fall quarter was to 1) Sketch your phone, 2) in Illustrator outline phone, 3) relpicate phone in AI

ICAD Photospread Layout

The assignment was to tell a story in a 4 page spread including a centerfold. I used garments from my 1993 Knitwear and 1994 Senior Thesis. Photographs were taken with an Olympus SLR and were edited in Photoshop.