This week I have been thinking a lot about the context and audience of my work. My interests lie mainly in textile art, and I think that in terms of presenation an installation would be the ideal way that I would display this unit of work.
If I was to describe this unit and the way I think about it I would say that the development I have been doing is a representation of modern architecture through creative knit and embroidery techniques distorted and disected in response to the idea of blurring the boundaries between architecture and art- inspired by the book "art and architecture- a place in between" in which this relationship between artists creating public art and architects is explored.
My focus is largely on the use of layering and revealing through extreme darks and lights of yarn and transparent fabric which represent those seen in modern architecture- to create intricate and sensetive pieces that would be viewed and experienced as a series of textiles which would fill a space by suspension at distance from eachother, allowing them to be experienced by the audience in a way that textiles aren't traditionally experienced.
A lecture from textile artist Michelle Stephens who has also been teaching photoshop workshops this term has really inspired me in terms of my context and how I see my work on the outside world. The way she creates installations along with public art, sculptures and wall mounted pieces really interests me and is definitely something I'd love to aim for the future.
If I was to actually exhibit my final work, I would need to decide on a scale of the pieces and I think that ideally the pieces would be so much more effective and interesting at large scale- possibly A2 size. I have been doing some presentations plans of how the work could be displayed in different ways if it was.
(sketchbook scan of plan drawings)
This week my samples have continued to develop into a set of fabrics that are working well together and I think that this upcoming week will be spent fine tuning my development samples through more experimentation and development to then be able to pick out which I will push forward as my final samples for this unit.
My focus is largely on the use of layering and revealing through extreme darks and lights of yarn and transparent fabric which represent those seen in modern architecture- to create intricate and sensetive pieces that would be viewed and experienced as a series of textiles which would fill a space by suspension at distance from eachother, allowing them to be experienced by the audience in a way that textiles aren't traditionally experienced.
A lecture from textile artist Michelle Stephens who has also been teaching photoshop workshops this term has really inspired me in terms of my context and how I see my work on the outside world. The way she creates installations along with public art, sculptures and wall mounted pieces really interests me and is definitely something I'd love to aim for the future.
If I was to actually exhibit my final work, I would need to decide on a scale of the pieces and I think that ideally the pieces would be so much more effective and interesting at large scale- possibly A2 size. I have been doing some presentations plans of how the work could be displayed in different ways if it was.
(sketchbook scan of plan drawings)
This week my samples have continued to develop into a set of fabrics that are working well together and I think that this upcoming week will be spent fine tuning my development samples through more experimentation and development to then be able to pick out which I will push forward as my final samples for this unit.
As mentioned in las weeks tutorial I this week I created a monofilamnet piece on the dubied with stuffed pockets. Although I do really like this tecnique the samples is really messy as I wasn't aware that casting on and ending the sample in lyrca is required. So I will definitly do this on a larger scale this week with use of lyrca to recreate a similar piece as I think this could be a really nice piece.
Making this sample larger and e wrapping more of the squares in has made it so much nicer and succesful. I think I'll definitely be doing one of these samples as one of my final pieces on again a larger scale as the overall look, feek, compostion and tones supports my visual research really well.
Another sample that I think could me made much more succesful by simply increasing the scale of it is this e wrapped piece which has a much more drawn feel about it due to the shaping and the planning out of the composition directly from one image. I love the highlight that comes from the different tones of blues and the small section of white- showing this idea of the extreme lights vs the extreme darks of my visual research.
I have again been playing about with embroidery onto more sheer fabric this week and again although the embroidery is working really well with my other pieces I don't feel like the fabric I'm using is giving me the look I imagined when overlaying. I have been thinking about buying some transparent PVC this week to solve this problem as I think that will give me so much more transparency and a better weight to work with and overlay with my knit pieces.
The sample in which I have woven acetate through ladders are a piece I'd like to improve with a lighter background to improve the quality seen from the strips of acetate and also through use of fabric glue to hold the strips in more securely.
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