Vedas

source: yellowtrace

Vedas: Garments and Space Design is an ongoing collaboration between LA-based Nicholas Alan Cope & Dustin Edward Arnold. This captivating series of fashion images is created by photographing Cope & Arnold‘s own sculptural garments which challenge ideas of what is acceptable versus what is possible.

Mesh cloaks, structured veils and circular headdresses are combined with free-flowing muslin textiles and blurred silhouettes. One of the things I like the most about this project is the strict monochromatic palette that allows one to focus entirely on form rather than colour. The project is broadly based on the theme of ‘knowledge’ (Vedas means knowledge in Sanskrit).

“Knowledge, it seems, is at once both expansive and contractive. It is a value exchange. For some it shakes foundations, de-stabilizes values and opens up the sheer terror of possibility. For others it signifies hope, advancement and discovery.” Both with varying backgrounds in photography and design, Nicholas & Dustin met through a commercial project in 2007 and began their first collaboration in October of 2009. Each working beyond their respective discipline, they combine the mediums of painting, chemistry, sculpture, fashion and installation as a part of their image-making process.
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source: qterror

El duo de artistas Nicholas Alan Cope (fotógrafo) y Dustin Edward Arnold (director creativo) crearon esta espectacular galería de imágenes que evocan una fina linea entre la vida y la muerte con unos personajes espectrales aterradores.
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source: art-pray-shop

Nicholas Alan Cope was born in 1983, He’s a photographer who focuses on product, architectural and still-life photography. He graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
In ”Vedas” the subject of knowledge is explored by Nicholas Alan Cope and Dustin Edward Arnold in the specific aspect of how the Copernican revolution provoked radical changes in thought, thanks to the book “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium”. ”Vedas” is a project that is in progress, in which photography plays with black and white contrasts, between mysterious figures enveloped by vaguely sacred-looking shrouds and spiritual places surrounded by light and darkness.
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source: cope-arnold

Both with varying backgrounds in photography and design Nicholas and Dustin met through a
commercial project in 2007 and began their first collaboration in October of 2009.
Each working beyond their respective discipline they combine the mediums of painting, chemistry,
sculpture, fashion and installation as a part of their image-making process.

Their first project Putesco (2009) explores classical composition and aesthetics through
decomposing still lives. Aether (2010) is a mixture of painting, chemistry and photography, dealing
with perception of the abstract. Stamen (2010) takes that same interest in the abstract applied to conventional
floral arrangements, while Vedas (2011) marked their move into fashion imagery through photographing
sculptural garments of their own design.

They are currently working on a number of projects and collaborations due for release in
late 2012 and early 2013.