Colour Dialogue

Living in a world in which language abilities denote power and words are wielded as weapons, it is in materiality that Ida Blichfield found refuge and expression for her introversion and dyslexia. A range of industrially knitted and handwoven wearable and non-wearable armours are constructed by exaggerating tensions between hard-soft, right-wrong and loud-quiet. Colours, in particular pink, are used as a non-language that can express without words, and create identities that repel and fascinate. A video gives a glimpse into the designer’s inner monologue reflecting on the physical and mental impact of words. Through the dialogue between materiality and words, binaries become symbiotics.