I love that term. DECONSTURCTION.
Deconstruction is an approach, introduced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida, which rigorously pursues the meaning of a text to the point of exposing the contradictions and internal oppositions upon which it is apparently founded and showing that those foundations are irreducibly complex, unstable or impossible. It is an approach that may be deployed in philosophy, literary analysis, or other fields.
Deconstruction generally tries to demonstrate that any text is not a discrete whole but contains several irreconcilable and contradictory meanings; that any text therefore has more than one interpretation; that the text itself links these interpretations inextricably; that the incompatibility of these interpretations is irreducible; and thus that an interpretative reading cannot go beyond a certain point. Derrida refers to this point as an aporia in the text, and terms deconstructive reading “aporetic.” J. Hillis Miller has described deconstruction this way: “Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text, but a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself. Its apparently-solid ground is no rock, but thin air.” from wikipedia.com
I use that when I am doing a sewing project.. and to put this in a more simple term, it means, giving the pieces of a thing a life of their own. And that’s exactly what I do when I try to be creative in terms of dress making. I deconstruct clothes.. and tomorrow is another day.
There were Sati’s house clothes (read: oversized sando) that I needed to sew and give it a more stylish look. And then there’s my nursing top that gives me a 9 months preggy look.. so I decided to make a dress out of it.
Pictures will be soon.
wow, good luck sa deconstruction day.