Ooh it’s so difficult to decide when one is naturally indecisive! I’ve been playing around with some ideas for the resolved sample and I’m finding it hard to choose one to develop into stitch. I hope writing this post will clarify my thoughts and/or be useful in asking Sian’s advice. I really like the curvy,… Continue reading Resolved sample: ideas
For the first sets of samples for ‘Fourth thoughts – stitched samples’ I decided to keep it simple and use the curvy 5-pointed star. The first set of samples (figs 1.11.4 a-d) has increasing rows of machine stitching from figs 1.11.4 b to figs 1.11.4 d. The stitching is closer together towards the centre of… Continue reading Fourth thoughts
This post looks at different ways of disintegrating fabric. Now don’t get me wrong, I do love a frayed edge: all that magic, movement and mystery compared with the ‘whole’ cloth. However, I really do not like the fraying process: all those threads, thumbpricks and tediousness. Hence this section and I started off on the… Continue reading Third thoughts
The first task for Second thoughts – paper shapes was to represent disintegration of shapes developed earlier in the module to produce a small series. I chose the ‘starfish-like star with irregular ‘arms’ and chose to tear out the shapes rather than cutting the, I worked with white on black as in the examples on… Continue reading Second thoughts
Really excited to have reached Chapter 11, the resolved sample. The theme is ‘Growth and Disintegration’. This post is about first thoughts – paper experiments which explores how paper can be manipulated to suggest disintegration. For these warm-up exercises I chose to recycle packaging paper (from inside the many boxes from that ubiquitous online marketplace!)… Continue reading Paper Experiments -1
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