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.