cradle to cradleindia f i lsel l -bayes

Mexico:sand dunes and surfing

Outside:leaves, fog and trees

Clothes:vegetables and arms

Otto:basketballs and trainers

Zug:snow and lakes

Megan:At home

Scarlett:snow and lakes

Milly Melbourne:hand dyed and locally

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Potager:a secret garden

The Green House:home grown

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Volunteering:people

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Currently for my dissertation I am exploring the concept of the subconscious obsession within photographers and artists. I read an interesting anecdote in Geoff Dyer’s book the On-Going Moment, which I thought was fitting to further explain this idea. Discussing his selection process and method of shooting, he comments “Initially chance played a key part in both processes. After a point, though, I began to see that a number of these photos had something in common” He goes on to say that once he had identified the running principal, it then became a very conscious obsession to continue that idea further. I have recently been

making a website which has given me an opportunity to look back at previous work and find my obsession.

At the end of last year I think I had become more aware to what my obsession might be, I believe it is people, not just what they’re wearing or how they look but their personality. Having seen this pattern in my work I have now made a point to try and continue this idea throughout the next year in preparation for the portfolio.

Thought this zine I am going to explore an environmental issue I am particularly drawn to, CRADLE TO CRADLE.

in t roduct ion about me

mil ly melbourne

hand dyed and loca l ly sourced

I have created a digital scan: there is little to no depth of field, everything is sharp and in focus. From afar the photos seem to fit perfectly, but there are small irregularities. It documents the overlooked: what is right under our noses and lays it out flat. The viewer can see all elements of each item right down to the knit of socks or the line in denim.

“It is important to describe and distil the time we live in whilst always pushing things forward.”

Style is everywhere in an act or a gesture, a crumple in a jacket or the flick of eye-liner. The finer details are what interest me.

Forms. In the past few years I have become more intrigued

about the practicals of making and wearing garments.

I wished to look further at how our garments are made, the processes behind each one; as well as how we put our clothes on and take them off. These questions are also something Milly Melbourne found interesting. Having just returned from Holland and Belgium, where she researched small Dutch product design companies. She used this research to create her graduate collection which is both age and gender neutral.

All the materials she uses are local, organic, ethically sourced and sustainable; each colour has been produced from hand dying.

‘ logica l ly s imple ’digi ta l scan: forms

megan

at home

outs ide

leaves , t rees and fog

Summer, after all is a time when wonderful things can happen to quite people.

sussex country mult ip le exposures , t rees and morning sun

otto

basket bal ls and t ra iners

c lothes

vegetable and arms

Recently there has been an increase in high street brands becoming more environmental aware. H&M for instance has began a Conscious effort and are pledging to create closed loop fashion.

With as much 95% of clothes being thrown away unnecessarily, H&M have begun to collect those old garments and have started to recycle them. They able to blend 20% of those old fibres in to new collections, with a hope in the future of making it 100%. H&M is very much in the lead when it comes to environmental responsibility.

Although consumers are more aware than ever

before about environmental responsibility, as a society we are still very far away from consumers choosing sustainable sourced clothing for there next social event.

It can’t only be the responsibility of company’s, the consumer needs to be making intelligent decisions when it comes to them buying their clothes. If we become less accustomed to buying garments for one season and instead buy our clothes to last, or second hand , we to can begin to do our bit while continuing to look stylish.

Membership programmes such as Positive Luxury...

garment co l lec t iondon’ t le t c lo thes go to waste

Are helping consumers to do there part. Each of the brands showcased on the programme takes great care with the sourcing of its raw materials, the manufacturing of its products and the marketing of its services.

There has also been an increase in smaller sustainable company’s. One which I feel needs to be mentioned is Base Range. There philosophy favours creating collections which are clean, easy and are accessible.

Base Range works with high quality, organic fabric in new and innovative ways that benefits the producer and consumer whilst minimizing

the environmental impact. The garments exist somewhere between modern culture and the natural world. Base Range is underpinned by a strong belief that sustainable products should not be a luxury. This philosophy has led to the affordable pricing of the label.

Being sustainable could have once been difficult but as I’ve demonstrated it is becoming more and more accessible.

There are no excuses.

scar le tt

jumpers and k i tchens

zug: swi tzer landsnow, lakes and sk i ing

mexicos: beach cornwal l

sand dunes and sur f ing

Being at the beach is a favourite past time, it is something the young, the middle aged and old enjoy. Although sometimes perhaps rather begrudgingly. There has been many laughs shared and tears lost at the beach. Whether a stony beach in Eastbourne or the long white sand beaches of the Kenya coasts there are many to be seen. The beautiful beaches of the Cornish coast however an experience which can’t be missed.

Each beach has its own charm. Some are for surfing, others for rock polling but each is be enjoyed. Mexico situated between Godrevey and Hayle with views of the St Ives bay is

not one to be missed. Before our coast is over

come with debris or the sea has altered the beaches beyond our recognition we should enjoy them. Use them as often as we can from January till December.

Shot in November although you never would have thought from the beautiful vibrant colours and the clear blue skys. That was until the sun set at four o’clock.

I wanted to capture the smaller details of each fabric I had chosen against the beautiful wild plants that grow on the dunes. The yellow jumper situated opposite was on loan from a local shop in Falmouth, Wild Pony...

mexicos: beach beach, envi ronment , nosta lg ia

I picked it because of the natural wool and vibrant colour. The large and square lines of the jumper made it a clear winner. Having taken inspiration from Joseph Altuzarra Fall 2014 collection of navy blue and shearling coats, I wanted to bring elements from that in to my shoot.

Previously I saw the work of Harry Callahan at the Tate Modern I really wanted to channel his fragility in to my images focusing on the beautiful reeds that grow natural on the sand dunes.

Potager: garden in Constant ine

gardening, tea and cake

Emerging from the bramble an abandoned plant nursery Potager is now a relaxing and beautiful haven to rest a while. With mature trees which were once nursery stock and lush herbaceous planting interspersed with fruit and vegetables Potager aims to demonstrate the beauty of productive organic gardening.

A market garden in the 1950’s, and latterly a garden centre, in the 1980’s the site was closed for business and lay untouched for 10 years. The remaining stock had taken root through it’s pots creating an almost impenetrable forest of plants with self sown willows for added density. Trees were

growing through the roofs of the glasshouses and the 2 acre field of daffodils and Christmas trees at the back of the nursery was an unreachable sea of brambles. It really was ‘the lost sleeping beauty nursery of Constantine’ - ‘ the plants-man’s paradise that time forgot’.They purchased the land in January 2000 and the hard work began. Rather than clearing the whole site, the overgrown specimens were used to form the shape of the garden. Using secateurs, saws and a winch in preference to diggers and chainsaws, and with literally a tree every foot, the progress was slow but absorbing.

potager g ardens gardening, tea and volunterr ing

A small woodland emerged birch, maple and cherry with even a solitary unsold peach tree and a willow leaved pear. Plum trees and crab apples were saved in the step by step clearance. As the space gradually opened up, full sun areas were planted with scented and grey leaved lavenders, Santolina, towering jewel Echiums, Mediterranean herbs, streams of Nasturtiums all able to flourish in the mild climate.

Plantings of bright Alstroemeria aurea, the magestic pale yelow giant scabious Cephalaria gigantica, edible flowered Hemoraccallis, shaggy maned Inula, and unusual Knautia macedonica

weave in and out of the shady areas.

Lawns were leveled and sown on ground that hadn’t seen the light of day for decades.New planting of fruit and vegetables was able to start, medlar, quince, gages, damson, mulberry, fig and even olive trees.

I can’t begin to imagine the transformation to what it has become today, with its clearly defined areas and beautiful kept beds. With each decision that is made about the garden there is a group of five or six people discussing the pros and cons making any decision a long process.

In 2007 an impressive wooden studio was built demonstrating the sustainable design skills of architect Peter, clad in local cedar it sits comfortably helping the garden sit in the context of a ‘dwelling’ and provides a sunny courtyard for playing boule.

In January 2009 Mark and his partner Saffa joined the project and are taking the lead in the garden’s future.

The old wooden ‘prop’ house now has been converted into three studios. Other workshops have been upgraded with new electrics, roofs and wood burners and the Potager family grows.

The sense of community at

Potager is overwhelming each person has a role, but each person is most definitely not afraid to pitch in. Many people have created a home at Potager, its so easy to see why.

As the weeks have progressed and I have begun to spend more and more time at Potager I can not image not going. The days of helping out,mucking in and drinking several cups of tea are just far too enticing. I can not wait to see how the garden is going to grow and develop during the summer months.

the green house k i tchen

fresh cakes , homemade bread and home-grown vegetables

Over the winter of 2011/12 a group effort saw the complete renovation of the café greenhouse - it’s now double glazed and has an excellent new kitchen where Awen and Tanya produce inventive vegetarian food and excellent cakes. In finishing the landscaping around the new café, the old rainwater collection tanks have

been refurbished and all the irrigation and toilet flushing needs are taken care of with water from the greenhouse and workshop roofs. The cafe welcomes lazy breakfasts and long lunches, with its exterior hamocks you have no reason to leave. It is a paradise hidden in paradise.

the volunteers : potager

f iona, jacquel ine, mike, t revor, ben, gary, and cary

To many of the volunteers Potager feels like a safe haven, a place for them to ignore the trials of the outside world. Where they have no relatives relieving themselves at there brothers weddings, or family members at war, here they are able to be in the comfort of the gardens. Although each week varies from clearing the beds off leaves or giving them a blanket of composite, there is a constant and that is the chatter. Here they have the opportunity to chat about there stresses away from family and listen in return. It has been a lovely way to spend time with people I would have never meet other wise.

The satisfaction I feel for a

flower bed well pruned and covered would be enough but to hear stories of Fiona’s publishing trials and how women only want to read pink books really adds to the enjoyment of the day. Particularly if your set the task of washing the olive tree.

The days are split up by tea and cake in the morning, lunch and tea at midday and than tea and biscuits in the late afternoon. The morning flashes by but the afternoon gets a bit hard with all the beautifully prepared food from Mark and Saffy. By the end I feel as though I could never drink another cup of tea.

the volunteers gardening, whi le chatt ing

gary

compost master

a lex

unknown ta lents a t gardening

ben

who l ives in a yur t on the proper ty

t revor

who never s tays s t i l l

f iona

who t ravels back f rom london by t ra in twice a month on a thursday but never misses a sess ion

jacquel ine

a teacher wi th the k indest vo ice

the garden is a lways evolv ing.