Anna Gammelgaard

MA Fashion Artefact

MA Final project: The Thing-finder, a narrative A fashion artefact may be interpreted as a man-made functional object that mirrors the motivation, capability and artistic faculty of the maker. Drawing on an archeological reference, an object discovered at an excavation brings us knowledge and comprehension of prehistoric man and his material culture. This project focuses on how the examination of devices enables one to understand human behaviour, and in this particular case, the tale of a character. The artefacts demonstrate a person's mission, and what that person finds necessary to carry with her in solving that mission. A sustainable consciousness goes hand in hand with a material consciousness, and this project explores man and his relationship to the material world from a sustainable perspective. Are we not all a natural link in the cycle of materials, in our comprehension of the manufacturing, decomposition, use and reuse? Rethinking and reusing rubbish is a clear statement about sustainability. In this project, the reuse of what other people have discarded as trash will be an outright criticism of the 'throw away mentality' as well as being an aesthetic choice. “Once upon a future time, in a post-apocalyptic scenario a survivor is woken up by a dream that evokes vague memories of the life “before” and her only distinct memory is a melody. Every night, she listens to that same melody through her dreams, clinging to the composition of these notes. The melody starts with an A, and in an environment with no electricity or machinery, a tuning fork with the pitch of A is her single utensil to produce the note she is pursuing in this dislocated reality. The task of “thing-finding” engages her all day. She gathers materials and components to build musical instruments that will enable her to play the tune. Driven by an endless anxiety of forgetting the single memory from her past, the search for notes becomes her raison d'être.” PHOTOGRAPHY: NICOL VIZIOLI//WWW.NICOLVIZIOLI.COM MAKE UP: OLE ELIAS HØVE//WWW.ELIASMAKEUP.COM MODEL: SHAUNA//ELITE MODELS SHORT FILM CINEMATOGRAPHY: WILLIAM REYNISH WWW.ANNAGAMMELGAARD.COM ANNA@ANNAGAMMELGAARD.COM