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.

 

 

Open blanket stitch/ button holes

This is my sampling of open blanket stitch/ button holes. I have used double thread as well as single thread to make it look more interesting, from the left hand side the stitches are more in control and on starting on the right hand side the stitches are more loosening, this is because I have not tie the knot on to each hoop to tighten it up. However, I thought of this is a nice piece of sample of seeing the transfroment of in control to loosen up.

Transferring chance card drawing into textiles work

This is a photograph of a mushroom that I have found in Withworth Park, I have taken this as my inspiration and starting point.

This is a photograph of my samplings, I have picked out one of the chance cards: draw with 20 lines. I have first drew a mushroom, then adding my own instruction to, which was: draw with 20 lines, after that use a rubber to rub out the drawing and repeat as many times as needed. Therefore, the drawing would ended up with rubbed out lines as well as the new ones. 

Then I have transformed that into textile work, first I have studied the colour of the mushroom and decided to use a rather light weighted fabric to represent that, however, I have later on added threads onto it ,but leaving the middle empty, because in the picture above, all the lines based around and leaving the middle part empty.