Moving on from the 1-1s, i was told that i need to do more material exploration to help me to get the most out of each idea. We talked about how i could use drawing to test shape and colour before doing the weaving as it is very time consuming. it also doesn’t leave much room for mistakes and happy accidents which are what im in need of at the moment. I went back and forth between drawing and weaving, continuing on the parts that i liked.
These black and white drawings allowed me to look at texture, i like the look i achieved with varying pencils and direction of line. This is something that i want to translate into the weaving as i am enjoying manipulating the typical horizontal lines you get from a loom. the part in particular that i like from my first weave was the gaps i created, so ive focussed on how to forward this with drawing.
I feel like i haven’t been as experimental with colours because i feel the ones i’ve been looking at seem most fitting. the baby pinks, blues, light greens are all colours i associate with nurture; similar to ones you would see in a nursery or new plant growth. i could probably look more into the significance of each one but im quite happy with how they come together and are a good starting point to move onto the weaving.
Overall, this has been my favourite area of development and i feel it is quite a strong place to move on from. i an envision these as a blanket, possibly patch working them together or making a large scale one. The thing i like the most in them is the gaps, it feels contradictory to the purpose of a bit of weaving/blanket. i think that its a strong way to explore they idea of gaps within my own experience of nurture, and exploring the tactility of feeling and lacking nurture. Touch is such an important part of nurture so i think that it would help to keep thinking about how a viewer could interact with it; feeling the soft wool will remind people of comfort, it would be interesting to see what material i could use to achieve the opposite of that. I also think this development has helped me to focus on the aesthetic of what im making instead of just the concept. i plan to continue this practice alongside my next work to see what i could bring to it; possibly written work or video.
Abigail yeats CAP 