Unit X - Development

 An example of taking inspiration from a photograph

For the development of this project, I have started to take inspiration from my primary images to get my colour theme and designs. I struggled with choosing the right quality of yarns and fabrics. Responding to my feedback, I produced some yarn wraps inspired by my primary research. This has helped me to link the quality of threads with the fabrics, and it  helped me to choose the right colours.

 Sample making

My aim for this project is to focus on how nature takes place over bricks has encouraged me to achieve something that traps the bricks with lichen. As I was looking into my research, I collected a colour palette. At the beginning of this project, I have started to work my samples with red bricks as that was the part of our group colour pallet.

The purpose of trapping the bricks in lichen was to show the movement of lichen over bricks.

Working in different stations is something that makes me feel enthusiastic about the outcome of my work.

Using different materials and tools rather than sticking to one thing, is something that I enjoy more. However, I do challenge myself and take risks to do my work, which sometimes makes me overburdened; sometimes it gives me some exciting and interesting outcomes.

I have started with mark making drawings mostly throughout the project as I love getting quick marks, and it makes me feel motivated as I go along. In addition to this, I have found a book called 'cell book two' by Coo Geller. In this book, I have found some interesting designs of cells and then I developed it with my lichen and bricks research like the image at the bottom is of my own drawing, which I have created with bubbles. 

My primary research shows that lichen usually grows on concrete bricks. Therefore, I have found an artist called Bethany Walker, who works with concrete and yarns to make her pieces. This artist has inspired me to take my sampling a further step and then I created the following pieces.

This piece on the left side reminds me of lichen been trapped in concrete.

Old concrete bricks

I developed my work by taking inspiration from the designers called Michelle Griffiths and Bethany Walker. By looking at their work, I could imagine a human eye can visually see the process of lichen growing through the bricks from before, it, until it comes out and covers the bricks.

Therefore, I started to look into the movements of old bricks being cracked with the passage of time and the growth of living organisms been grown in a man-made material, which ended up as deterioration.

Taking ideas and feedback from peers and tutors has encouraged me to develop my work furthermore. Therefore, I am thinking to combine the use of pfaff machine with the concept of trapping small textile pieces in concrete. However, this will make my work go together for the exhibition.