Derick Melander

Clothing Performance: Nomad (video), 2007

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A video tour of a hotel closet, that becomes a poem.
Nomad, 2007 (video)

In this video, I take the viewer on a tour of a hotel closet, reading the tags on the garments as I pack to leave. These words spell out the following poem:

Dreams Divided The Natural Uniti

One Free Voice Above The Crowd
R Nomad Identity InStride

Spellbound Acrobat S Bridge The Gap
A Tightrope Outline Barely There

I’m Absolutely Pale
Solitude S Rare Essence
U Breakaway Speechless 2xist

To Draw Next, 2004

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Clothing Sculpture Drawings: To Draw Next, 2004
To Draw Next, 2004
To Draw Next, 2004

Size: 15″ x 11″

Materials: 200 lb. white paper & pencil

At one point, I had a pile of sketches about clothing sculptures spread across several sketchbooks. I wanted to develop them into finished drawings so I made this sketch as a sort of to-do list. Many of these thumbnails become finished drawings.