Creative Design: Graduate

Blue Nights: The Complexity of Grief

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Abstract

Blue Nights: The Complexity of Grief is a coat that was inspired by the book Blue Nights by Joan Didion. The book is focused on the loss of Didion’s only child, Quintana Ro. Didion remembers the stephanotis flowers her daughter wore on her wedding day, and the gaura and Lily of the Nile flowers that grew in their home in California. The typical color associated with mourning is black, however, Didion uses the color of blue nights to convey the feeling of melancholy, nostalgia, memories, and time passing. We created a design with these flowers and used cyanotype printing technique to print it onto 40”x60” denim canvases. We then constructed an oversized, A-line shaped coat with a cut-on oversized collar and one-piece facing that is attached at the top left loose afterward.

Keywords: Prussian Blue, Memories, Melancholy, Textile Prints, Cyanotype

How to Cite:

Janevski, N. & Uriyo, A., (2020) “Blue Nights: The Complexity of Grief”, International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference Proceedings 77(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/itaa.12083