The idea behind Alma and Tina's collaboration is to attain a "perfect" yet realistic picture of the city they both come from - Split, a beautiful but ruthless place. The approach to this work, based on stimuli that affect the artist's visual perception of the city, is very subjective. Alma perceives different actions, textures and motifs of the city which grab her attention in a given moment, and she captures them with her camera. She tries to resist and deviate from the classic image of the environment that surrounds her. Tina transfers the photos to a clean, white textile canvas, which she then transforms into a garment. In doing so, the media in which the artists operate merge. They extract and tell the story of what they carry within, and they wrap themselves in that story. In baring themselves, they clothe themselves. They distort photography, they do not approach their media in a logical order by starting with the finished fashion product and the product photo. Rather, they start from the photograph that is placed on the textile from which the fashion product is made. 

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