PERFECTION IS A JUDGE AGAINST THE LIVING

PERFECTION IS A JUDGE AGAINST THE LIVING

PERFECTION IS A JUDGE AGAINST THE LIVING’s overarching aim is to express my view on the people that I observe, whether it is truly factual or not. Addressing the familiar perceptions and stereotypes connected to these groups will work in tandem with my own isolated view.

PERFECTION IS A JUDGE AGAINST THE LIVING is most simply a collection of characters. Each character is a stereotyped representation of a larger, more general group of people; women, teenagers, celebrities, real-life americans, and men. The characters; Billie, Stella, Leo, Oliver, and Sloane, hold a personality just as any normal human does, which is shown through both their collection look and their accompanying short story that further informs who they are. Design details of the collection will be associated with the “personality traits” of the characters; some may overlap to communicate cohesion along with the varying similarities of humankind, but in the end each “person” or look will be entirely different and their own.

The characters are fictional people, composed of what my imagination has made them out to be, all informed by society’s views and judgements of what these individuals should represent and how they should behave and present.

AN INTRODUCTION…

  • STELLA

  • BILLIE

  • OLIVER

  • SLOANE

  • LEO

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My research revolved heavily around common misconceptions and person perception and the psychological approach to people watching. I was obsessed with the idea that people generally form impressions of others very quickly, even if they had minimal information. I was no exception to this.

I’ve made my own “people-watching diaries” for as long as I can remember, and realized that these “diaries”, these fictional stories I made up for the people I saw in my daily life, was me engaging unconsciously in all of these generalizations, judgements, and perceptions that I wasn’t even aware of.

I chose these extremely broad groups of people to focus on; teenagers, women, men, real-life Americans, and celebrities, because I wanted to be familiar enough with these groups to create a character that fit within those loose confines, but was also very much open to interpretation by the reader of their unique story.

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STELLA

BILLIE

OLIVER

PHOTOGRAPHY + PHOTO EDITING BY ADAM MARTIN (@ADAMVMARTIN)

VIDEO EDITING BY IZA SCHILLING (@IZASHLN)

THE MOST HEARTFELT + SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE TWO OF THEM FOR SUPPORTING ME IN THIS PROJECT + FOR HELPING ME MAKE THIS EVERYTHING I’VE EVER DREAMED AND MORE!

AND THE BIGGEST LOVE + THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS SUPPORTED MY ACADEMIC JOURNEY THESE LAST FIVE YEARS; MY INCREDIBLE PROFESSORS AT DAAP (INJOO KIM, MY CAPSTONE PROFESSOR + SUPPORTER, ZACH HOH, FOR BRINGING ME MY LOVE OF KNITTING, + EMILY FLANNERY FOR BEING MY BIGGEST CHEERLEADER ALWAYS) , MY LOVELY PARENTS WHO SUPPORTED MY CREATIVITY + PASSIONS + PUSHED ME TO GET OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE, MY SISTER MORGAN WHO IS MY OTHER HALF AND FAVORITE PERSON, MY GRANDMA + GRANDPA WHO GOT ME MY FIRST SEWING MACHINE AT AGE 12 + IGNITED MY PURSUIT OF BEING A DESIGNER, MY INCREDIBLE FELLOW DESIGNER ROOMMATES WHO HAVE KEPT ME SANE, CREATIVE, AND LAUGHING THROUGH ALL OF THIS, + MY HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHER WHO TOLD ME TO NEVER STOP WRITING. <3