testingmaterialsdisplayandprocesses

A day of testing – the section of the show for MEAL which celebrates the objects within the collections looks good – approximately 300 circles cut out from the initial images and pinned to the wall around the mind map of connectivity!

Working on what should be the final piece for the show – the idea of folding skin - this came from looking at my hands when sewing and links with a trip to the cloth house in Berwick Street which has led me to latex. The piece has started to reference a range of bodily parts which weren't initially my intention but I am working with it to see what happens, in the end it just might not fit.

workingthroughwork

one really positive aspect of this project has been to work in new ways - examining an established working practice is always positive in the life of an artist, throwing up new issues and ideas to consider. Learning from making, attempting to make work that has no definite ending in terms of what it should be or even look like and to embark on new ways of making is exciting, although a little worrying – a good state to be.

an example has been a piece of work that has turned into a ‘quilt – type’ object. Starting off as the interesting material left after sublimation printing – which was then folded – joined together as one length – folded pieces of tracing paper were attached as if sections in a book onto the length – folded into 4 as if a map - tracing paper ripped out (leaving small elements as traces) – pleats added – length folded into a bookwork – abandoned - cut into squares – some elements turned to view the back – all elements joined to make a quilt – finished.