My collaboration project was based on the Flat Stanley project. My partner in this project was Bridget Dickey, a fashion design student at Columbia College in Chicago, IL. The goal of the project was to incorporate the geographical location of both of us through one art piece. We decided to work in textiles, since that's Bridget's preferred medium, and it's an area that I'm fairly familiar with.
We each designed and created one side of the "Flat Stanley" doll keeping our geographical locations in mind. My side was to represent the suburban or rural geography and Bridget's was to represent the urban or metropolitan geography.
My side was designed with a tradtionally crafted quilt in mind. I used small pieces of quilter's calico fabrics to create a small quilt in the shape of Flat Stanley.
Bridget designed her side with a mind for high fashion. She decided to incorporate this idea of remnants, what is not used in a garment from the pattern, trying to create a sculptural textile from those pieces. She then decided to work on the piece on a dress form and then scale it down to the flatstanley.
The ultimate goal is to put the two of them together to create a single doll that represents both the urban and the rural parts of this lovely state we live in.
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