Dai Rees

Carapace: Triptych, The Butchers Window, 2003

These pieces are "made from 1950s patters, dissected and sewn back together again in a completely different way to make them look like animal carcases. Dai Rees sews the leather together with scar-like seams...stitched with sergical lines. in some of the pieces it is still easy to recognise sections of the tailoring, while in others the original form is lost. all of them evoke the remains of cows and horses" (Aware : Art Fashion Identity, Gabi Scardi, Lucy Orta, Kline Smith Glaxo, Royal Academy of Art (Great Britan)2010,  pg175)

I noticed that Dai Rees' work had similar construction techniques to my body of work "FLESH". The wound like construction reminded me of some images I had from "FLESH" like the above image and the one below of which was of my own work. 

Using the natural leather and the orange cotton with zig zag to recreate an image that looked like a wound which has been sewn up. This technique of zig zag-ing seams together is a method of which I have brought across to my current series of prototypes. 

Two images of my current work with natural leather and the same zig zag technique being employed.