Significance project: Gawthorpe brief

Figure 1: Sketchbook Drawing

Figure 2: Sample

I first experiment onto satin fabric as my ground, but I then realized that my work was not about replicas my own drawings, but to develop from it.  When printing onto satin, there was too much of a picture-like quality to the work. The satin shows the flaws in the stitch work much more obviously than cotton based fabrics. 

Figure 3: Sample

I have used quilting as my ground and combined different types of machinery into my embroidery piece. 

Significance project: Gawthorpe brief

Figure 1: Sketchbook Drawing

The main element within portrait was eye contact, because I was drawing the back of the head, the focus and tensions was lost.  By experimenting with reverse portraits I was able to offer new perspective on traditional portraits. 

Figure 2: Sketchbook Drawing

I am interested in the details of the hair, body language and representations of portraits from behind.  This is a commercial based project.  ​

I should consider the back of the head as well as the front of the face. For with portrait, it seems to be limited with the representing.​

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I have decided to includes the back of the head, such as the way the hair was tied up and such and create a 360 degrees surrounding three dimensional perspective on a two dimensional surface. 

Significance project: Gawthorpe brief

Figure 1: A pair of Chinese Cuffs, undated.

Researching into Faces & Figures in Embroidery.  ​

It highlights the England embroidery methods throughout 16th – 19th centuries and the purpose of different stitches.   I am continuing the comparison between Anglo-Sino stitches.   ​

The first pair of Chinese cuffs served the purpose of a traditional garment; they were identical.   ​

In the past people have linked restoration to oriental designs, so I have decided to relate this to my own childhood as a native from Hong Kong.  I tried to reaffirm my Asian identity. Through personal experience, I have been experimenting with elements of my own physical identity.

Figure 2: A pair of Chinese Cuffs, undated.

However, on the second pair of Chinese cuffs they were not identical. Each had been noted on the label and were embroidered beautifully. I started thinking about how I can represent them.​

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I plan on linking with my childhood of how I moved in England and I was bullied because of my race and how I felt at the time that I felt the need of removing my Chinese identity, such as bleaching my hair to different colours but black. I change my hair and love to use colour. Within my work, I can use nature and wildlife to document my work and myself within this work.  I want to link to portrait work and develop this within a new style to offer a self-portrait.

Michael Kidner Textile Brief

Figure 1: Colombian by Felipe Bedoya

I have done some more research on Michael Kidner, I use figurative to respond to his abstraction.  His work by 1999 responded to world events such as chaos within terrorism, I plan to respond to it in a human emotion state of chaos, for his patterns looked chaotic like whirlpools that appeared and receded as he viewed them. ‘He wondered if there may be in chaos ‘some kind of order that perhaps we haven’t yet recognised.’ From my understanding, this is an illusion, as we wear mask as an illusion like we are fine. Chaos in emotionally; chaos and order, for that is a method of how we deal with our emotion.​

Sandler Irving. Michael Kidner "No Goals In Quicksand, " Exhibition Catalogue (Flowers East 2007)​

Prof.Bann Stephen. Michael KidnerLove is a Virus from Outer Space Exhibition Catalogue (Flowers London, 2001).

Figure 2: Michael Kidner -Left, Entangled Roots of Hyacinth Bulbs, 2007

Using a chaotic research diagram, I have been using new methods to link emotions and natural disasters.   Kidner wishes to resonate emotionally.  Kidner believes that there may be order within chaos that humans are not able to understand and believes it is a coping mechanism for distress.​

I am interested in the both the motive behind Felip Bedoya’s paintings, but also, his working methods.  From researching his methods I discovered that he deconstructs the references he has taken from personal internet searches.  He developed a childlike aesthetic for adults, combining techniques and expressions, like photography, fashion and painting always paying attention to the details and emphasizing the eyes. This mirrors my work from the Kidner brief where I also wish to emphasise eyes.​

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For the next stage of my development of this work, I will add elements of Michael Kidner’s more abstract works, but also blend this with my personal narrative so that the work also highlights and​

reflect the way I felt at the time or the way I wanted to feel.​