Ideas for my second (and additional) projects

I need to start thinking about ideas for my next exhibition piece and I'm not really sure where to start.  I guess I really should go back to the theme - "Phoenix - to rise in brilliance". 

I have a collection of Bras with wires missing and mangle hooks, I'd like to find a way that I can make use of these.  It kinda fits into the Phoenix theme, albeit abstractly.  The phoneix dies in a burst of flames and comes back anew with the rising of the sun.  The bras have died and I need to find a way to bring them back to life.

One idea that I did have was to transform them from 'under-wear' to 'outer-wear', hence rising in brilliance.  This follows with an earlier concept that I had of using recycled materials to demonstrate that energy is not lost instead it recycles.

The question is... how do I do it?...

The phrase "to rise in brilliance" to me conjures up images of bright colours, of something grand and beautiful.  However, when I looked 'brilliance' up in the dictionary it also defines it as:

A) "exceptional clarity or agility of intellect or invention". 
B) "splendour or magnificence"

So how do I make something mundane, boring and practical into an object of splendour, magnificence, grandeur and invention? 

Old - new
Underwear - outerwear
Practical - impractical
Boring - magnificenct
(opposites)

Top - bottom...  Shoes/slippers???  Hat/headwear???

Practical for body (wearable) - practical but not worn (domestic)... Bra cups - drinking cups... domesticity (wine glass, coffee mug, tea cup)

Domesticity (def) 1: the quality of being domestic or domesticated: "a royal family living in unpretentious domesticity" 2: domestic activities or life: "making a hobby of domesticity"...  Picture of domesticity

Revamped/remade...        Use the basic structure but replace fabric, put in new wire (barbed wire?) machine lace (stitched on soluble)

                        Alternative - remake the bra using different materials, different shape?
                        Machine and hadn embroider all over, in brighter colours (brilliance),  bra enables lift... (rising?)

About Me

Let me start by telling you a bit about me. I am a textile artist.
Actually I am a student in a textile arts course in my final year, but I am
getting used to the fact that I am still a textile artist regardless whether
or not I have finished my course.

As this is our final year, we are required to put on a graduate exhibition
of our work in November. This is a multi-facete task. Not only do we need
to produce enough peices for the exhibition (a minimum of 5 works to include
3 major and 2 minor), but we also have to go through the entire process of
setting up an exhibition including obtaining funding to cover all of the
costs of galleries, catering, publishing etc. Whilst I am stumped with the
artwork for the moment, it is organising the exhibition that is getting the
better of me.

We have a small group of 9 students who are all working together (or at
least should be working together) to organise our group exhibition. This
whole process is painful with many heated discussion and arguments over the
simplest and most meaningless things. Then there's the balancing act of
those actually doing the work and those who sit there and ask "when is" and
"who is" and "what about", without actually doing anyhting at all. I think
they believe that they are doing their bit by telling everyone else what is
to be done.

Anyway, that is not the point of this journal, so onto other and better
things. I want to use this journal as a means of documenting the progress
of my exhibition pieces and to jot down ideas and thoughts regarding these
peices (and any others that come up along the way). This way I will be able
to make use of the gaps in my work day as well as progressing towards my
finished exhition pieces, and also creating notes for the journal that needs
to be submitted for TAFE about the development of my exhibition works. It
is not necessarily intended for anyone to read, but if there is anyone out
there interested in my babble and who has anything to add or comment on
about my work or any of the topics brought up, please feel free.

First Post

I set this up as I needed to have something to do at work to keep my mind
active and to halp me look busy. Things are a bit slow in the new job and
I've even taken to reading those trashy womens magazines for something to do
- and they really are trashy.

I'll keep this short as I'm not sure if the email thing is going to work
(sending this to my blogger via email).