Working space

 

Figure 1: Personal image, working space

I think it is really useful to put images and work up on the wall, because it gives an overview of my working process.

Figure 2: Personal image, Working space.

 

 

 

Comparing figure 1 and 2, figure 1 is the most recent image, I have been putting more drawings up on the wall and have been really experimenting with my work.

After the experiment of stitching onto papers, I have come to realise it does not have the same quality as film, therefore I started stitching on to film itself.  

 

 



Figure 3: personal image, machine stitch onto film – experimenting.

 

I really liked the effect of the fairy threads on the film, as it changes colour and also with the transparency of the film, therefore I was working the front and the back of the ground.

Also, I was experimenting with the perforations along the side of the film with tailor tacking, I really like the texture it has created, but the down side with it, is that I would not be able to play it.

What inspired me to stitch on to the film was Stan Brakhage, The Dante Quartet.



 



Figure 4: A hand-painted image from The Dante Quartet,1987.



The Dante Quartet, 1987.

 

 

 

At the moment, I am struggling to find my hand stamp, struggling to find myself within my work. I enjoy working with colours, but when I was on the sewing machine, it was hard not to continually stitch in straight lines all over the film, so I have drawn on to a piece of film, then handstitched on top of it. See figure 5. I like hand stitch more because it gives me time to see the whole thing. With the machine I only see sections. I have a plan of what I’m going to do on the machine, but I need to keep stopping to look back at it. It is really hard to see the overall. It also feels like it is turning into a manufacturing process so that everything ends up looking the same, rather than what I had in mind of what I’m going to produce.

 

 

Figure 5: Personal image, handstitch onto film.