Swatches and Captions, Rebuilding Material Descriptions within Remake.

Images and written material description with focus on expresiveness.

The scanner is a tool used to examine and uncover expressive properties and potentials in garment materials. The swatch is the image that the scanner creates. The caption is a material description from an aesthetical perspective. When working with the scanner the tool helps to look beyond the actual t-shirt or a pair of pants. It also allows deconstruction of a garment material without using scissors It allows one to search for other qualities and generate ideas for construction and formation. The image that the scanner creates Placing a garment in the scanner connects it to the now; it has no past, no future- -only a focus on the particular garment and its specific qualities. The scanner presents a frozen moment where no inherent history or origin of a garment or even a possible future transformation or idea about "what it is to become" stands in the way. Within the scanned swatch, a stain having a beautiful form may be far more interesting than the topstitched seam sewn onto the same material. The scanned swatch provides an alternative view beyond the routine perspective. The material gets closer, becomes more tangible, more textile-like, and tactile. The flatness and limited crop actually create both depth and an enlarged perspective. The caption linked to each swatch is a material description, which aims to describe the material beyond the obvious, not just stating and pointing out a specific fold or a topstitched T-shirt hem. The intention of the captions is to look beyond the ordinary zipper, the standard button, or the boxy front pockets.