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The Perfect Soldier

Agnes McWilliam

    UAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Graduate
    UAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Graduate

    Inspired by Foucault’s ‘Discipline and Punish’, my costume is of a reconnaissance soldier, sent ahead to observe and gather information, who has been left waiting for the rest of its army in vain. The troop it waits for is never going to arrive. It surveils uselessly, and without a superior officer to relieve it from its post, indefinitely. It is left to wander would-be battlefields and perpetually maintain itself as it prepares for a war which will never come. 

    Final work

    3/4 shot of the full costume, a metal mask and blue-grey soldier's uniform
    Close up image of the metal mask with hands surrounding
    Close up image of detail work including evidence of wear and mending of the buttons and fabric
    Full body shot of the whole costume, a metal mask and blue-grey soldier's uniform

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    The Perfect Soldier

    Inspired by Foucault’s ‘Discipline and Punish’, my costume is of a reconnaissance soldier, sent ahead to observe and gather information, who has been left waiting for the rest of its army in vain. The troop it waits for is never goin...

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