Intention

Cover Page clipart : https://thetomatos.com/free-clipart-13796/ 

This is a tribute to my hometown, New York City. I'm from Queens, and am very proud of the night time view of Manhattan. I was also inspired by Lunar Gala. When I first visited Carnegie Mellon as a prospective student, my host was an architecture student who showed me her studio. She showed me the website for Lunar Gala, and introduced it as one of the school's largest exhibitions of student work, with an emphasis on the integration of visual arts and technology. This project is the product of my introduction into this integration. 

The skirt can also have a tulle layer serving as a petticoat, to give it a lolita-inspired look, but that is beyond the scope of this project proposal at the moment. 

I wanted to invert the colors of a classic skyline silhouette image (using an outline like the one in the cover photo), so the "night sky" could be portrayed as the shapes of the buildings.