Maria Angelica de Vera
Bachelor of Design
Wake - Forecast
Wake consists of a collection of unique handmade backpacks produced from salvaged materials. Based on the theme of scavenging & vultures, the project title derives from the term used to describe a group of vultures - a wake of vultures. Alongside, “wake” expresses the notion of becoming aware of - and in this case, becoming aware of our attitude towards waste and rethinking negative perspectives of “scavengers” through the storytelling of positive perceptions of vultures in various cultures.
Vultures play a helpful and important symbolic role in the Mayan culture. It is believed that vultures regulated rain, as well as that interpreting their flight patterns could be a way to assess and predict the weather. The pleating on 'Forecast' represents vultures flying in the sky, and the angled pattern illustrate the dihedral angle of the wings of vultures during flight.
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