In 1997  I was studying BA- Sculpture and photography at University. I dont have many photos of the creations I made and only found the above image yesterday.

The pants below were for one of the subjects I did where we had constant assignments and presented our creations every couple of weeks. I’m unsure if we chose the theme or it was allocated by the teacher though I do remember the theme was Camouflage.

I made alot of wearable art for this class . The camouflage pants displayed all my photos .

The double exposures images were created by initially finding images of animals of owls, wolfs, tigers from magazines from memory and then capturing self portraits doing similar poses of the animals with my 35mm film camera.Looking at them I see similar themes, ideas and concepts that still interest me today though back then I  didn’t use Photoshop though I was very resourceful

In those days the photocopier was my favourite tool and I made transparent acetate copies of my photos  then over layed them over the animal images and made a photocopy of the combined images finally  transferring the images  onto material using another of my favourite tools which was a fabric transfer medium.

I presented the pants suspended from the ceiling with a pile of leaves I drew on underneath… the designs on the leaves was inspired by research into first nation people who created material inspired by the design on leaves.

In the wilderness of life, I stand tall,

Camouflage pants made from faces, I wear them all.

Each face tells a story, a journey of its own,

But together, they protect me, like an army unknown.

A chameleon in the wild, I transform and adapt,

My pants, a canvas of art, a double exposure map.

The faces, they blend, with animals they entwine,

A fusion of souls, a manifestation divine.

Faces and animals intertwine,

In a world where art and nature combine,

Double exposure captures the essence,

Of creatures and humans in coalescence.

Whiskers sprout from cheeks once fair,

But in the midst of this wild display,