POP 546 Monday 28 March 2011
Today's POP is Tui. She did the walk of shame to the office today. DON'T ASK!
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To mark the launch of
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In the midst of what looked like organized chaos, POP had a one on one with the lovely Carrie Mundane who hosted the how-to-make-animals workshop.
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Tell us about the project in general
I worked with Aaron and Ingrid before in New York. We did a project with Nike in the summer. I was out there for 2 weeks, making stuff with kids from Harlem for a basketball project and I really enjoyed it. So when they came to London they got me involved in this project. There is going to be a window display at Selfridges based around Edun and to launch their collection. Also it's to allow these teenagers to go crazy and do what they want. It's based around this book called Running with Wolves, which is about these run away street kids, bad kids with fucked up lives but with really interesting stories. Yesterday they did a workshop and they made all these masks over there, and today we're doing the wolves. I guess they asked me to do this because my work is very character based. I do a lot of characters, creatures and animals.
What characters are you making?
We had a brainstorming session and I brought some references along, such as native american wolves because, obviously wolves are very spiritual animals. They have a lot of power in a lot of different cultures. There are some amazing masks with very graphic fangs and teeths. One of the groups have gone that sort of way, doing tribally and breaking down the shapes of the animal and doing graphic shapes. The other group is doing werewolf's with bloody jaws and that sort of stuff. So we are doing those two. We are also using a lot of found objects.
You started off doing fashion, what made you change direction?
Every collection I've done, there has been a story behind it and every story there is a character and obviously the graphics are a big part of my work.
And I'm like a big kid basically, where you're creating and getting back to the roots of it and I really like teaching. I've done quite a few workshops like this and I work as a youth worker. Most recently I did something at Tate Modern and I did something for the Barbican. And I never think of myself of just doing fashion. I think I'm more like an art director. I like to create a little world.
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