Meet The Soule

Soule is a clothing designer that Sheilah knows. We had a Skype interview with her a while back during social sculpture course. Her main job is to help design theater actors' costumes. On her own time, she makes shirts that send positive messages such as being green.

We got a chance to see how she organizes her research and even some of the work that she had done and what she was still working on. It was interesting to see how she puts her research together. She printed off all the images that inspired her and pasted them all on a board. It looks like a collage. That way she gets to see all of the images at once.

Since that interview happened a while back so I don't have much clear memory of what exactly did she say. However, what I read from Tina's post, I recall she said something about how she first went to an art school for the passion of "beauty" but now she considers the "ideas" within an artwork more. I kind of disagree with that idea. I mean, how do you compare "ideas" and the "beauty"? What does a good idea mean? Does the idea of doing drugs mean a "bad idea"? What about "beauty" What is "beautiful? Most people would say anything that most people agree appeal to look nice would be something that is "beautiful" But doesn't the sense of beauty change from time to time or even from different culture to another? What is the true beauty then? The answer is both the level of the quality of "beauty" and "ideas" should depend on the audience as an individual. A "good idea" could be expressed in many many different ways. The job of an artist is to preform that idea she or he wants to send out, in the form that the artist wants the people to see.

The Skype Interview

This Monday, September 15th, in social sculpture course, we got to use Skype to interview a fashion designer,Soule Goldin , whom Sheilah knows.

She began with what she does and what she had done in the past. Then we got to ask her questions about how she did a certain thing and why she started it. Parts of it was pretty interesting, I must say, because not everyone really has the chance of seeing somebody else's portfolio and process of creating art. It was also cool to get to see her way of putting her resources together as a reference; She pasted all of the picture references together as a collage. It was also nice that we not only learned about her art life, but also her college life.

However, I'm not sure if it's just me, I thought the interview went a bit too long. Maybe it was also because we weren't well prepared for it? I felt that there were parts when both side did not know what to say or do next... But anyway, it was still a pretty cool experience!