scaletowardsfinalpieces

Working at two scales towards the final shows – a large scale black vertical ploughed piece for the stables at the Museum of East Anglian Life which will be a companion piece to the white horizontal piece. And 300ish images cut into circles which are a mixture of images from the three archives – objects and spaces. These are mixed with images of my work that was made as a result of looking at the former. All the images are close ups focusing on the folds within the work and will be pinned to the wall in a mass, as one.

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.

pleatfoldcrease

Another week of completing pieces – often it involves bringing two pieces together – often it’s a traditional example of a process with something that is more extensive in its exploration of process and ideas.  Pleating and smocking converge here with a version of the honeycomb smocking sitting within a box pleat, with some heat pressed sublimation printing which focuses on the crease, when does crease become fold?  

newspaceediting

The new space I'm working in has great light and this along with a lot of reflective thinking I have realised that a lot of the original samples are in fact pieces of finished work! This editing process is interesting and the four piles – finished piece – good idea but needs remaking either in the same or maybe different materials – useless now but still of some value and the objects often change from one to the other!