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WREN

research journal

Engaging in questions around the noise of adolescence and the subjects desires, plans for the future. Exchanged thoughts are shared of who they are and their visions of a British dream, keeping a few contingencies in mind of what their answers are going to be.

I use the liminal space of the bedroom as a place of thought, contemplation and comfort. city roamers, city fools, city rascal individuals who bounce from one place to the next. I hope to gain commonality, breaking down their ideas of rest, ideals and periods of thinking, this is to understand that the plans are trivial but also a reminder that ‘grace strikes us all at the same time’.

Whats your name ?

What do you do ?

Describe what your wearing right now ?

What are you listening to at the moment ?

Describe yourself at 50 ?

When was the last time you dressed up ?

Whats the best thing about yourself ? Whats the worst thing ?

When have you felt the most smartest ?

What are your three wishes at this point in time ?

Describe your favourite thing to wear in the summer ?

Do you wish to be in the country ?

British professional codes

& thoughts on smartness

scrubs, sertile and to sterilise- fabrication - cotton - v-neck

shift dress

a shift – defined as – the period when one group of workers shifted or changed places with another to keep operations running continuously
on call – waiting and prepared when requested

working method

‘ Bricolage ‘ - construction from available things - to be a ‘bricoleur’

the architect

Clifon Estate, Nottingham

to dream county

the common bird

summerwood allotment

Clifton blue

profile of dad - Occupation - maintinance plummer - Migrant Hostel

I draw parallels to the Britannia hotel in Nottingham where my dad works ( maintenance Plummer). This space acts as a non-place where similar thoughts occur in passing.

the act of coping within movement, the aim is then to seek comfort within this whole process.

how do i re-translate this into depictions of clothing ?

Britannia Hotel, Nottingham

Project with Miles Buckle,

on going

Britannia rule the waves

Marc Augé - none - places
Non-places being turned into places
the hotel room

places for thought and ponder

how can i see the world again ?

Top-shops, Clifton, 2023

symbols of chance

A leap of faith, blank slate, trusting the universe,

The Cliff Edge - threshold of a new path, potentially dangerous.

The Small Dog - guiding instincts.

White Rose - freedom from lower desires.

Small Bundle - carries only essential knowledge / baggage

Number 0 - unlimited

5/02/26 - 10:09 pm

what has hurt you is not always what’s important

everybody’s hurt

the thing that is driving you is to connect you with everyone alive

your pain is trivial - grace strikes us all at the same time.

Cisco interview

cisco - JB skating - originating from Chicago in the 1970s, designed to dance to the soul music of James Brown

whats your name ?

Cisco

what do you do ?

at uni i do jewellery design and in general ... not much, i roller skate a bit, do calestinics workouts a bit

what are you listening to at the moment ?

like music wise, i cant lie it just depends ... i listen to alot of house music, alot of like i dont even know how to describe this music ... soul ?

i love soul

when i skate theres this style called like jb skaing, you know james brown ? its kinda based off him, its pretty intresting still, they kinda imitate this guy called james brown, artist from back in the day.

ive heard of james brown what else, bit of gospel.

do you skate in the ring ?

i try not too because of your bearings, sometimes it has to be done. i try to skate indoors but if i cant i skate at a car park or something like that, its dry and smooth.

i didnt know there was skating parks here

its like rinks. thats the thing in london cuz obviously around the world there’s lost of different skating styles. in london its mostly outdoor skating, its known as quite a agressive skating, youre going fast backwards on the roads going through traffic. but in america becuase they have so many more rinks its like indoor skating, JB skating

in my head its so prominent in america

it is, you see a 70s show and you see them gliding, it was quite big last year over the summer, in stratford you see them all the time bro, probably still now but not as much

in stratford ?

yeh in olympic park, in the carparks, cuz theres a couple car parks in stratford, theres the westfield one and theres one from the old stratford centre and then theres this car park which is basically in stratford called E15 and wed get kicked out, and youd have to be changing around

its like skating

narh but its like cool its cool

you have a group of people you skate with ?

yeh yeh to be fair it’s a pretty big community like, everyone knows each other, its like pretty decently sized, definiety over like maybe like 500, and its like alot of people our age.

i didnt know that, maybe i should try actually

apple music or spotify?

spotify, spotify

i just switched to apple music

is it, why

cuz the sound qualitys better

seriously ? i cant lie i dont think i would notice

describe what your wearing and why your wearing it today?

to be fair i dont normally really dress like this, i dont know i have all these clothes here im like, i dont ever wear this pile which is jeans, normally i just pick from this pile which is tracksuit bottoms but im wearing some jeans, black hoodie

is this like a new fit for you ?

shall i tell you what it is, in college, i dress more like this, i think im more cool but when i got to uni i sacked it off and i dont give a toss. i’m more of like a tracksuit like just chill

for comfort ?

yehh i just cant be bothered but today i tried a bit you know what i mean, i had a little trip so like okay.

whats your most comfortable piece of clothing ?

- any of these joggers, slap on a t-shirt, slap on a hoodie, call it a day

no effort and anything that slips on

where do you get your haircut ?

i go to this barbeshop in haggerston, near hackney city farm off hackney road

do you have a dedicated barber ?

yes.

do you not cheat on your barber?

nah never. i did cheat on my barber one time after. some tough times

whats something you appriecate about yourself ?

i think i think im a pretty happy guy like around other people like like i try like keep good vibes yeh

thats chill
yeh

umm where is home ? like i’d say here , would you say london ?
yeh hackney

hackney still. yeh yeh hackey

you’d say brazil ?

like i wish i could call that home but like ill be real shall i tell you what it is you know its that thing where like youre not like your parents are from there and like you’re from there but you’re not like from there like if you went over there like they wont see you like as one of them kind of thing is like

yeh do you think ttheres like a huge community like that in london ?

yeh one hundrad percent like i’ve met like alot of people like like similar to me. but like i feel like a lot of brazilian people like are tapped in with there culture, so then being like, i feel like, i met alot of poeple like that but at the same time like ive met alot of people who who are really tapped in its like ehhh i wish i was still like that you know what i mean

you wanna make me get brazillian food
yehhh haha

what would you reccommend

shall i tell you what i dont i dont go out to eat really and like the brazillian food i have is like you buy the product and then

make it yeh yeh

umm yeh but theres on mare street there’s a brazillian super market, they just sell like brazillian south american products and in stanford hill just up the road also the same thing like. once you get to stanford hill theres a junction, if you turn left across the road just there theres brazillian stuff

imma go check it out
umm

what kind of life do you wanna live at 50 hahaha
50 ?

urhh me, i wanna be retired kicked back

really hahahaha
chillin like haha i dont feel like

wait people still work at 50 ? is that right ?

yeh
urghhh

you can have that dream at 50

yehhh

who says you cant
yeh like ok like dream ? is like is like what would i want like ? if i had the choice ? what would i want ? like genuinly not be working at all

hahaha

maybe i have some like grandkids or suttin

REALLYY
you know 50 is quite young

oh yeh it is quite young still, ok wait maybe

its like

actually that is quite young

my dads 50
shall i tell you what actually my parents are old my step dad is 70

yup

and my mum, she was 60 yeh she was 60 still yeh

urm do you wanna stay in london at 50 ?

when im 50 ?

yeh

i dont know i wouldnt mind being in london like growing up, working my life in london, i really like london, alot of people dont like london , people are like london

is bad vibes mer mer mer except for the weather, the prices i love london its good

i love london

but i think i would rather be in a nice hot country, when im 50 just like laid back chillin yeh

i think i dont think at 50 i dont wanna be in london maybe like i dunno hahah

yeh you could always come back

you could like a leave and then like come back again
yeh hopfully i’m in that position to be doing that

its always the weather that like gets me, like oh my god also its the same as everywhere else
yeh thats true still

did you grew up in england ?

err i grew up in i was born in phillippines i was there until like i was like maybe 5 or 6 and i lived in a place called mansfield and then

which is like nottingham derby erm do you ever go up ?

i been to birmingham twice ?

really how come ?

just roller skating

really ! okay yeh nice
people roller skate there so i go

its nice that you travel to skate

its nice still but i dont think i do it alot no cuz i cant lie the journey is just ....

its rough
i cant be bothered to take the train and i have to pay uerrrr i might as well just do it here but the people there who i have met are pretty cool still, its quite nice up there but im just so far apart

yeh

like yeh, its good still, ive been twice yeh

i went back to phillippines before my final year that was okay it was quite intense because i hadn’t been in nine years and its me as an adult and saying hello to my cousines and there like i knew you when you were a kid and im like i dont know you haha

you know when your parents give you the phone its like sorry i dont know you i saw you when you’re a baby sorry mate narh

would you go back to both brazil ? would you go back to both countries?

one hundrad percent i would go back to visit family all that stuff holiday.

when have you felt the most smartest ?

smartest okay im tryna think so i think smartest i ever felt i think so you know when your in set two but your the smartest in set two

but the worst thing is when you go to set one

what subject ?

erm maths but then you go to set one and your the dumbest in set one

yeh i cant relate because i was never in set one hahaha

yeh i cant lie it was just horrible like everyones so smart and your like oh but erm

but i dont even know, probably like prom or something

i dont really have any on occasion

what were you wearing ?

i wore a suit i wore some airforces

really hahaha
that was in year eleven in year thirteen prom i wore like croc or suttin like erm suit airforces and some glasses i felt proper proper smart

if you had three wishes what would they be right now ?
i dont even know is it like material things ?

it can be anything take your time to think honestly i know this is such like a
i dont wanna make it sad not sad but like you know what i mean like deep it like let me think

i mean i wish to go back a year

really ?

yeah last year no no two years two years not last year last year was horrible two year two years err

i wish to go back two years i think that was one of the funnest years ive had still

what year was two years ?

2024 ? that was good still

where were you then ?
thats when i started roller skating i met like bare cool people but then i dont really talk to them anymore erm

i went on holiday with my friends for the first time

where did you go ?

i went portugal

nice

err it was just a good year man

how old were you ? did you turn like

18 turning 19

i think that age is such a good age i was partying all in london

ive never been to like freshers and all that , is that what you mean ?

no i kinda was just like my dad was so strict so that when i got to uni i was like
free

free hahaha i was like going to raves and all of that
i lowkey wanna go to like a rave or suttin i never been to one but

to be fare isnt there the nts down the road in the summer

i dont know what that is see im not a party see i went to the club like a handful of times but i wasnt really like

you know the square ?
what gillet square

yeh

they have like a music event in the summer

yeh yeh ive seen bare people there still i never knew what was going on i was just hear the music

ill send you it happens every year its actually quite a vibe

describe youre favourite thing to wear in the summer ? wait sorry there was one more wish

on really another wish i actually dont know i think im pretty content right now can i wish for the future?

yeh yeh

ok like i wish for the future like i dont have to work and i make money

so good yeh

and i wish for good health you know what i mean just be healthy

thats chill

erm describe your favourite thing to wear in the summer ?

erm t-shirt , shorts maybe like i dunno

can you remember what you were wearing all throughout of summer ?

hmm i have a very like shall i tell you what i dont have a very like wide rang of summer wardrobe yeh like i feel like im very like i dunno the way i dress is not very out there or crazy but i dunno i do like a little hat i like hats still

i feel like you always have that one pair of shorts in summer and you wear it all the time

yeh i cant lie i was banging out like on rotation for the whole summer like three or two pairs of shorts litrally

you forget how many pairs of shorts

the thing is i dont own shorts thats the thing i would even go out and id be wearing like my football shorts cuz i cant lie i genuinely didnt have another pair of shorts in the wash

do you ever wish to be like in the country ?

narh narh i couldnt i just would feel like its not me man

do you see yourself as a city kid ?

yeh like even when i go to like other areas of london that are not so built up and your like this feels weird like like my friends all live like south london and then like croydon but then that to me doesn’t feel like london

south london everytime i go its feels different to here

i feel like especially cuz this is pretty close in the city centre its quite built up lots of like its always going on bro i would go back from work and im just seeing on a saturday im just seeing so many people just walking around the street its like always busy never like its be like 4 am 5 am thats when its quiet but then except for that your always gunna see someone kinda like it i enjoy the

i actually always use to want to be in the countryside cuz its kinda like a place where black and brown people dont really go to those areas i feel like its just like a upperclass like i dunno british thing

litrally like just move out like farm animals just like horses and that

i dunno that was never the reality so like me being intrigued by it then acctually wanting it but i know what you mean your not actually interacting with anyone its so boring

its so dead like you get bored

your brains not actually stimulated

i think tiktok ruined my brain bruv haha

yeh

if you were to go to brazil and only had a backpack to take with you what would you take ?

oooohh damn

my flip flops , lots of shorts , id take like my swimming trunks just short sleeve stuff and then maybe like a raincoat im pretty chill on holiday i dont need to take much like on holiday wiht my friends i just got a suitcase like this big im just like normal, average suitcase im only here for a couple days mate

flip flops shorts jacket call it a day

you dont need that much

especially when your out in a hot country

my brother went to phillippines and was doing the most bringing all these outfits and stuff and my dad was like you dont need to do that those kids arnt gunna care what your wearing
your gunna wanna attract less attention, especially like brazil , i dont wanna be a flashing light like ..... rob me

litrally you’re gunna get robbed flashing it out

last question, whats your favourite dessert?

i dont really eat desset that much, im a pretty boring person let me think, i like mint chocolate chip ice cream, pretty good, i cant think of desserts like i c, i dont really cake that much not reallt

i like waffles is that dessert ?

yeh

waffles, creps if it was waffles or creps i’d pick a waffle

really

erm

yeh i would aswelll

and a waffle is so good

if you had someone to make you clothes, what would you want them to make you ?

hmmmm what do i wear ? i dont know you know , i dont know , i feel like im not really out there with my clothes, i dont want anything crazy, probably like err does it need to be like a specific thing ?

it could be anything

i mean like hoodie, tracksuit, thats it , im sorry haha

it could be anything ...

probably some cool socks, just like on a one time occasion if im wearing some shorts ... just like flex my socks.

i’ve got some like lebron james socks, its just like a cartoon lebron james and ive got another sock of a proper good image of a great white shark coming out of the water

erm

that was everything thank you so much

i enjoyed that

i started noticing skaters in london

Leon Interview

what is your name ?

Leon full name ? Leon Norman Thomas

so its fairly chill ?

yeh

what are you listening to at the moment ?

quite alot of sets on soundcloud, i went to a festival called houghton in the summer and theyve recently uploaded a load of sets of the festival so recently ive been banging a load of that whilst ive been working.

describe what your wearing and why you chose it ?

this knit actually arrived through the post yesterday, got it off vinted for £20, some adidas gazelle and these little cargo number and then plain white tee

what clothes makes you feel the most comfortable?

depends what im doing that day , i dont really know ?

hmmm maybe to bed ?

i always when i get home, after uni, put some joggers on, a hoodie on but i dont like to wear joggers out the house

really

i dont know why, i need to be wearing something like jeans or some trousers cuz it makes me feel motivated beucase if im in something like joggers or like loungewear, i dont feel like as motivated i dont know why, do you know what i mean

where do you get your haircut from ?

i do it myself, try and keep on top of it, every like two three weeks maybe

really, thats quite often

yeh , after like three four weeks it just starts growing out and then like getting a haircut is just extra motivation

you feel like prepped

yeh

when was the last time you had a barber ?

errr not since nottingham, like 4 years ago

who was your barber ?

the place i use to work at, JJ barbershop in Lady Bay and there was a place called flints

in town ?

yeh in town, right by the brian clough statue

where is home and when are u going next ?

home is nottingham, however like, actual home these days isnt nottingham , its wurthing, but like my heart is still in nottingham,

really

cuz like when i go home to wurthing, its like , its not like your around the corner from your friends or like its all familiar with your childhood and stuff

yeh

erm, where as whenver i go back to nottingham it feels like i aint actually going back to an actual home because my mums moved but the feel of it feels like home

yeh you kinda know where everything is

how often do you go back to nottingham ?

i was gunna go the other day, erm, but last time was like christmas, im tryna do it more now then i use to before like when i use to for uni during BA, id go like 3 times which is not that much actually , easter, summer

when are you going back ?
easter maybe. yeh. , normally when theres a big break during easter

i feel like thats when like mostly everyones free aswell

thats when its best when everyones at the same place at the same time aswell

what kind of life do you wanna live at 50 ?

i’d love to live in the countryside,

really

somewhere thats not too, do you know bassingfield in nottingham

no

its like where morrisons is in gamston, its like, theres a big road, A52, theres a big dual carriageway, and past that is erm bassingfield, and you have this like countryside feel to it.

i feel like where your in a countryside where your a 10 - 15 minuite drive into like a nice town, somewhere that would be like perfect place ,

id love to live abroad

would you go back to paris ?

yeh thats the dream, like, maybe try and stay in london for a few years, experience like working here and try and go there, but easy said then done

thats true, do you wanna stay in london ?

for a few years, yeh,

have you enjoyed living here ?

yeh definatly like, from like a young age, cuz like my nanas lived here, my brothers lived here, all in south east london, so like it does, like familiar and it does feel like home, cuz when i was younger i would always come, but yeh well see, how long ill stay here for, but i could like, would wanna, if i was gunna move anywhere outside of london, i couldnt really see myself in like a manchester. or like if it was anywhere in the uk it would just be in london.

i feel the same way

could u go back up north

i was thinking like glasgow or like, i cant see myself in manchester, i feel like ive got an image to it. partying kind of like, i feel like its trying to catch up to london, i feel like i dont want it to feel like your catching up to something, i feel like, i wanna be in the thing where everything is moving fast. current, which is silly to say because what is that

yeh totally

to be continued