Having obtained original versions of the earlierly showcased pictures, I decided to polish them up a little and re-uploaded them in a higher resolution in order to maintain a stronger sense of unity throughout the gallery page, filling up the foreseen slots with images depicting the fabricated outfits on location, captured by various festival photographers, given credit in the file descriptions.

Suplementing those, I added some products of my own, limited, efforts in photography, created taking a brief moment out of a busy day’s schedule to try and deliver a more encompassing portrayal of the works, as distinct from the less-prolific on-the-spot snapshots, displaying befriended people, make-up close-ups or general silliness, my facebook page will pretty soon be a host to.

Having learnt the added value a social media extension can prove itself to be to a blog like mine, I felt it would be best to split the existing facebook page into more meaningful counterparts each serving their own purpose:

The Opus Relinque facebook page
will continue to relay the content of this blog to the greater linked audience by providing brief automated updates on the daily posts, present gallery-photographs and professional shoot results, maintain professional connections with photographers and print media, keeping the same distance between the work and my persona as this site does.

The Discipulus facebook page
is to become a more accessible medium, housing the less polished but more taggable imagery, providing an open wall for folks to post on, placing myself in the middle exhibiting the work’s more personal side, associative to the many kindred spirits I am meeting along the way, keeping in touch and convening beyond the relevance of this blog.

Conforming to the standards set by the new About, I derived a page encapsulating the (in the previous chapter implemented) navigation index-pages, merging both outlooks into a hybrid design, to serve as an intermediary menu.

Blog Chapters The posts on this blog are segmented into chronologically ordered chapters, each leading up to an important event or cut short by a brief posting break, leading in a new construction stage. Using these indexes to find an entry point (e.g. the first post), and continuing onwards through the posts is the best way to read the blog as if it were a book.

Post Categories All posts are submitted into content-derivative categories, recognizable by their distinctly formatted outlook. These indexes form the best course for understanding the structure of this blog, serving general interest as well as facilitating cross-referencing, by maintaining an organised view of all posts within each category.

Context Tags Post-tags add a notion of clarifying context to posts while at the same time bundling them through inter-category connections. They are normally found mixed-up up in an alphabetically ordered cloud. For these indexes, the tags are classified into a number of tag-types, forming parallel lines of posts within each type of context, providing a structured environment for comparing tag formed listings.

Search Function The search function is the best way for speedy retrieval of any specific post or gathering posts from a number of keywords. This page depicts its effect by also displaying its results in a post-time sorted index. The search works great for querying content-aspects not exemplified by previous methods (e.g. silk shirt), as well as forming combinations of the ones that are. (e.g. sunday primary treasure)

“Opus Relinque“ is a weblog I use to share a daily excerpt from my work on a multitude of artistically incited projects, of which the majority have become gothic fashion garments for both myself and my companion, directed towards larger goth-scene happenings such as the yearly Wave Gotik Treffen.
Favoring creative design above over-decoration, I set out to synthesize divergent styles, incorporating both classical and modern materials and construction methods, documenting my opus while releasing my creativity upon the world.

Educated in science and architecture, while active in information technologies; combining resources with structures to achieve forthcoming results has become a second nature. Considering the lingering couture-wisdom within my heritage I felt compelled to answering a youthful artistic indulgence and express my own inventive visions of high-end men’s apparel contrived to the best of my on-growing knowledge.

Bundling sights that touched and shaped me through my years, with my own notions on form and beauty, I search to challenge the fine border between street-wear and art-fashion, experimentingly honoring my influences devoid of genre limitations and not shy for any extravaganza.
Lead by mathematical justification I continue to conceptualise thoughts and ideas into construction-methods taking control over the coveted design towards creating standalone pieces highly motivated in individual charisma whilst serving their proquired purpose within subsuming outfits.
Regarding the construction I am blessed to have a guiding hand at a modestly equipped atelier, allowing me to continue my home-base efforts while providing me a continuous glance into past couture, complementing my autodidactic confection knowledge, in exploring the best method for the job.

Which brings us to the raison d’être for this blog, which is the sharing of these, from memory-fading, techniques, in extrapolating my designs and motivating material choices as I document my own learning process, showcase my results and cover acquisitions and undertakings, providing the total artistic concept broken down into original scribings, though-out and fashioned in an eloquence reflecting the clothes themselves, populating this platform, I keep groomed to my personal standards of web-resources.

Hoping my writings contribute something of interest to those who come to read them, I’m thankful to those who already do so now and support me with their graceful feedback, critical observations and appreciative ponderings, making me confident enough to ask you to click my sponsors and spread the word about this website, as though the long-term course of it is unclear to me, I wish that for the time being we can converse adressed topics together and see where the future will take us.