revealingboxes

Everything I make has to go in its own box! After coming across this wonderful container at The Costume and Textile Collection - it all makes sense – especially when thinking that I have spent the past 2 months opening boxes and looking at the wonderful objects within them.

I like the idea that in the exhibitions members of the public that can have the same experience as me. This one is for the ‘ghost deed’ piece.

foldingprocess

Working on binding the Vylene fabric – using book binding techniques and gathering stitches – then using sublimation printing with the heat press to transfer colour and mark making onto the work whilst it is bound –the piece is then unbound to reveal the folds and the trace of what was once there. The process is revealed and rebuilt in the mind – its history is unpicked – the pieces are a hybrid of sculpture and process neither one nor the other but a middle point alluding to both.

These pieces will be folded and become pages in a bookwork – I've been looking at how to document the work – using both natural and man made light from an overhead projector changes the tone of the work – the images are interesting on their own and could become large prints.