Gravity: Anna Lewis

We had an amazing lecture from jewellery maker Anna Lewis. Her work encompasses images and found items related to myths and superstition. I liked most about her work was her photography work. Even though she doesn't take the photos, she goes to great effort to find items, clothing, hair & make up, location and models to show her jewellery and display a theme or story within the imagery. This was very inspiring and I loved every image she produced. I wish I could work on such projects as of setting up the imagery for photos or film. Set designing reminds me of my foundation work where we had to create an installation. It seems very similar where I had to create this setting of a bedroom. I loved every moment of the production. After the lecture I had a short question with her in a group tutorial about what you need to consider when producing sets for photography. Not only do you have to organize the location you also have to consider the models, hair & makeup, clothes and props. It's a lot of source work, but it's the kind of work I enjoy.

Lecture with Rachel Chambers

We were lucky enough to have a visit from gallery owner and editor for craft and design magazine, Rachel Chambers. We had an amazing lecture from her where from her experience of gallery owning and maker mentoring for marketing was able to pass on some great advice and information about marketing ourselves and approaching galleries. She told us some really great ideas that we can use and apply in the future. She showed us some really good and terrible examples of some makes emails or letter to show us what not to do and to inspire some ideas in how creative we could be with our letters. This was a very resourceful morning spent. I've even used what I learnt to send some emails and letters to get some work for WBL.

50 Images, 50 Words

It's the start of a new project and like the last CP module we're starting with 50 images and words again. Last time I did this I found it much easier to collect images with a theme and an idea alongside. For this module I have chosen images that I feel show a formation of lines or squares. I really wanted to present my images and words in a way that related to the images and themes I had. I put my images into lines and created concertina folded strips of paper between the columns.

I chose these in relation to an interest I found during the 3DSP module when I was creating tucks and would like to further this into creative work. I also realized while collecting my images that I had recently been interested in the structure of folds in my last CP module with paper when I made a folded paper dress. Knowing this makes it feel good like I've found myself and my area, like I'm working on the right tracks to an area that really interests me as this is the third module this has appeared.

I'm a bit worried as to what to for sampling as I've already made a lot of related samples on my 3DSP. My plan is to look at contemporary paper folding artists and look for some inspiration.

To get the ball rolling we had group crits to present our images and ideas. I'm not sure how it went as there was a lot of 'umms' coming from me after I gave my idea. I'm really struggling to explain what I want to do but I guess once I start producing some stuff It might make better sense. I think it went okay even though it was a bit quiet as I was told my imagery was quite strong and it seemed like they were happy I had something to go with.

Making My Final Piece

With only two days left in the workshop I needed to start preparing my quilt. I dyed fabric and began printing my designs on it. With my top layer of fabric ready I stitched the patches together and tore into it on the felt machine, while also printing my text layers. With my two top fabric layers ready all that was left was to stitch them together into a quilt with wadding and a backing fabric. I also chose a special thread for quilting that gradiates in tones of green that I thought would look better than just a plain colour.