Travel
The Prints Missed the Flight
Four of us left for Thailand with cameras, sketches and clothes for a SCAPES idea we wanted to try. The printed pieces we had planned to take with us hadn't arrived.
The trip was meant to give us time away together and room to work on our own ideas. We had brought the clothes, but the missing prints left that part of the plan unfinished.
On Koh Tao, we kept taking pictures anyway. There were scooter rides, breaks in the monsoon and time spent with the cameras without a client schedule. The clothes were there with us, still waiting to be tried properly.
During a scooter ride we found a local printing shop. We took in the sketches and explained what we wanted to make. The next day we had the prints in our hands.
We could finally wear the pieces and photograph them where we were staying. It was a quick way to find out what we liked once the idea was off the page.
We wore the clothes through the rest of the trip and made pictures as we went. Having a few pieces to use was more helpful than continuing to discuss the sketches. We could see how they looked on people and decide what to work on next.
We brought the samples home with the photographs. There was still work to do on the clothes, but now we had something we had worn, tested and wanted to keep working on.