First-level academic project · 2021
Tumaco–Tolita
From source to form.
An exploration of ancestry, form and abstraction. This project studies objects from the Tumaco–Tolita cultural area as a starting point to investigate how visual logics can be translated into contemporary clothing through respectful analysis, reduction and material experimentation.
Explore the researchContemporary clothing
as a form of listening.
Archive
Research
Analysis
Translation
Wearable form
Formal Analysis
Figure / Ground
Motif Iteration
Construction
Final Dress
“The past informs the present without defining it.”
Material evidence / 07
Details and palette
Territory
Objects
People
Forms
Continue
Objects
People
Forms
Continue
A living archive
in the body.
Tumaco–Tolita · Colombia / Ecuador · 2022
Collection archive / Credits
The hands behind
the world.
Tumaco–Tolita- Design
- Daniela Vicuña
- Creative direction
- Lia Padilla
- Photography
- Soledad Rosales (@rositasoledades)
- Model
- Violeta Purtshert
- Hair & makeup
- Fernanda Puente / Pro Makeup