linesintheclothandlandscape

The connection between the lines in the ploughed field and the detail in the smocking on the smocks worn by the people ploughing the field is something that I've been thinking about. Did they consciously recreate the world they inhabited within the clothes they wore? Is it inevitable that humans create patterns or seek to find pattern and so order? Which arrived first? I am reminded of the moment, after a move from an urban to a rural area. I realised that within the sculptural books I was making I was recreating references to the landscape around me – ploughed fields, horizon lines and the gills of mushrooms – subconscious or did I just find the motif because I was looking for it? 

2Dpleathemtuckanddart3D

The construction of garments and the hidden nature of the structure is the latest thread in my research – the pleat, hem, tuck and dart and how the 2D paper plan is translated to the 3D object are now ideas to consider – I have started to make paper versions to build my skill base and to see how they could be connected to ideas of book.

This activity of translation is mapped within the archives at the record office in the drawings of plans of buildings that I have been looking at – 2D to 3D or is it 3D to 2D – as a way of documenting, disseminating and then informing others of your ideas?