inspiration: marion deuchars

Looking at some of Marion Deuchars' publications has been instrumental in helping me decide what tone of voice I want to convey within my work. Deuchars work is manages to think about and discuss big ideas in art & design, while still being playful and tactile. My practical investigation is process-led and exploratory, and generally my approach to making work has been 'keep having fun until something really works'.

Lots of socks

Started using the sock as a visual motif in my exploratory printmaking, in which to condense some of what I've found out about texture through mark making. I want a visual representation that is playful and fun. These have been made using a combination of mono type and mono print processes

Given that I don't have a final 'outcome' or product, I think my sock prints are quite nicely and effectively representative of everything my process exploration has taught me. I'm choosing not label them a final outcome, as that feels too conclusive - making them has still been a process of ongoing experimentation and development

creating backgrounds

Experiementing with combing some of my monoprints with digital overlay effects in Photoshop in order to create textured backgrounds that I could use for composing prints, book spreads etc.

Practical summary thus far

Inspired by my research into Hannah Waldron and the Bauhaus weavers, I have been creating some of my own weavings. This has been an enjoyable learning experience, and has hinted at a new way of working for me. It has been interesting for me to create spontaneously, as I have been working without planning designs in a sketchbook, and just trying to consider how shapes and colours come together in the woven form. Although it has been interesting and informative to try this tactile process, I don't think that I shall continue working with it. I am cautious of just making work that echos work I have looked at, and don't know how innovative I can be with this process.

COP3 practical experiments

The beginnings of an idea - trying to  recreate a weaving in collage, using a mixture of textured painted paper and flat colours. Something quite interesting here, as the use of collage simultaneously complicates (the textural sheen of the painted paper) and simplifies (more defined block shapes) the design. 

When I  made this pattern, I was considering only how the shapes and colours sat together. However, looking at this pattern through the lens of my project, I think it's interesting to see a pattern that usually exits as fabric rendered in architectural paper craft.

Could this be a complete cycle: Fabric pattern -> paper structure -> reprinted onto fabric ?

Different opportunities for tactile processes: paper craft, mono printing rather than digital.
At what point does it cease to be an image and become an object?

Image to quilt

The artwork for The Decemberists' album What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World (Carson Ellis) rendered in quilting.

What is gained in transformation from visual object to tactile one? Are they the same thing?