Journey Films

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Textile Curtains

For the last few months I've been creating these three linear 3m long curtains each describing a process I've looked very closely at within my project. This idea is branched from when I created shadows with with maps because i'm intending to shine light through these three curtains to make shadows; creating an installation piece.

Paper:

I started this project cutting out maps from Karen O'leary and I've already used cut out maps to make shadows so cutting out a map from paper seemed an obvious start. Tord Boontje's work inically inspired me to create my curtains starting with cut out curtains with his 'Screen/Streamer' from his Wednesday collection, Until Dawn Curtain and Fallen Flowers Curtain/Screen.

While making this I had to hand cut it all out so like Tord I folded the paper to get a repetitive pattern that also links the the roads together creating one whole strip of map that is cut out.

Print:
One of the ways I created shadows before was from shining light through screen printing onto translucent fabric. From this it seemed obvious to do it again but on a much larger scale. ust one repetitive print was too simple and not as appealing so i printed another thinner map over the top. I tested different colour combinations stcking to the colour schemes within my sketch book.

Strips:
Looking through my sketch book my imitation of Sandra Meech strip pieces was something i looked quite deeply at and was the most adaptable from my other work to this.
Using this technique wouldn't give much light through but i could use different tranlucent fabric in the spaces inbetween. I tested four different types of translucent fabric, looking at: cotton scrim, netting, unbleached muslin and a looser weave bleeched muslin. I chose to use the cotton scrim and unbleached muslin because it didn't ruffle up when i sewn over them.

To make this i've used loads of different materials for strips all with natural colours like cream and brown, I used maps, route cards, squared paper, parcel paper, hand made paper, lino printed paper, textured wallpaper, old book pages, dress patterns, dress making pages and lace ribbon.
I intended for my curtain to be hanging up as an installation piece i needed to cover the back of this curtain. So I used cocoon stripping on the back for it's cream and natural colour and texture.

Editing Ribbon Journey Marking Pictures

While documenting the ribbon journey marking I took a series of pictures that I can link together showing the length that the ribbon traveled. On the first one I overlapped the pictures to put the picture together.

On the second I used photomerge on photoshop that bends and stretches the images to match them together.

Journey Markings

After my movement in an area drawings I wanted to make my marks of a journey more real. Looking at Mary Clare Foa I found that she walked around New York dragging behind her a lump of chalk leaving a line on the floor. I tried doing this but instead I tapped chalk to the end of a stick.

 
After seeing photographic documentation of Francis Alys' work I wanted to try expressing more journeys using different materials. An example of Alys' work is his walk through stockholm, fair tales, with an unraveling sweater drawing sinuous lines on his own personal map. It was this that inspired me to try something similar using an unraveling scarf. I took lots of photos to document the journey and the change in the size of the scarf.

Linking back to my movement in an area drawings I wanted to try this with more than one person, but using wool or string was found for this would make it hard to pick up the variety of colours so I've chose to use ribbon. In a small area with trees for the ribbon to wrap around I asked 5 people to to walk in the area leaving a trail of ribbon.

Movement In An Area Drawings

Relating back to marking routes on maps I've taken it to a more 3d style of drawing. I've drawn an area and marked in colour the movement of people in the streets.

Street Collage: Rachel Whiteread

Continuing from my series of pictures in Oxford and looking at Rachel Whiteread's 'Two Streets' and 'Street' I've decided to do something similar but on a planned route. After taking pictures of houses I used photoshop to cut them individually and placed them in a sequence creating my own road.

Series Of Oxford Pictures

While visiting Oxford I marked on a map the route I traveled, I also took pictures along the trail I walked.

Rusted Map Marks

I've created a rusted print of a web of roads that I made from wire that I sandwhiched between damp fabric and paper.