Final Piece

This is my final piece that is now up and hung at Portsmouth University in the Eldon Building gallery.

I was impressed when I saw my work hung.

My piece wasn't hung in the gallery with most of the other work, it was hung in the corridor. At first I wasn't pleased with where it was but after a few minutes I realised with it being hung there, there is more viewers, the gallery goers would know there is work hung there and go and look and also the students of Portsmouth University would pass my work and notice it. So there would be more viewers and isn't limited in who would see it.

Also there is a spot light hung above my work so it's well lit, because of the positioning of the light the gold fabric and the blue net made my work seem more defined.

With the limited time that I had given myself with poor time keeping I am happy with my outcome, I am impressed with what I had achieved with the small amount of time.

A design

For this design I wanted to try to create the inferred image of a hurricane.
On this design I have got a piece of fabric and with a felt tip pen I removed the ink and just left the ink running on fabric. I didn't have any control over the ink and where it was going to run so I just let it run. Afterwards seeing the end results I thought it was successful, it resembled the inferred image of the hurricane.

Design in Progress

For this design I decided to change something nice into something horrible.
I made a postcard, when a person receive a postcard it shows a country at it's best but I wanted to change that and turn it into a town destructed from the storm, it's the opposite meaning, wishing you weren't here to experience this.

Design in Progress

I was inspired by the sculpture that stood at Bondi Beach Exhibition in Sydney, I was unable to find the proper name for this piece.
When I first saw this amazed how harsh it was, I liked this piece and wanted to make one of my own but tweak it a little bit.
I designed my own version and planned on making the edges sharp like the original because I liked the meaning it being harsh and painful. To make it my own I added bandages, which wraps around the sculpture to show the meaning harm and suffering.

Design in Progress

These are some of my designs. What inspired me to draw these are cloud formation.

Before the hurricane if formed the clouds make an interesting patterns. The first drawing is a rubbing I created by using an eraser and I just rubbed out the pencil marks and tried to shape image into clouds.

And the second image is the eye wall, and to create this I just twisted a plain piece of fabric. I didn't add colour, because I wanted to give the effect of being dull and miserable.

Seiko Kinoshita

Seiko Kinoshita is a Contemporary Japanese Textile artist. I came across her work because I was interested in Japanese Textile art and wanted to take it further and found Kinoshita.
What I like about her work is her uniqueness and how she involves her own cultural background and incorporate it into her work and made it personal like I have tried to achieve in my previous project. Being inspired by this I also wanted to include my cultural background into my design, but unlike Kinoshita I don't want it to stray too far from the meaning of hurricane.

work in progress

This is my work in progress. Here I was adding fabric to try and define the raised patterns to create the textile surface design inspired by Yoshihiro Kimura's 'Pedocal'.`
I wasn't working from anything so at times I would stress because it wasn't forming the way I had hoped. I had to try and find a new way to make my project work because there were times when the staples would be visible and I needed to try to hide it, I didn't want the audience to see my project in the making but it being made.

work in process

This is a maquette that I have made, I wanted to know how I'm going to make my final piece instead of going straight for it.
Using fabric I roughly had an idea of what my design should look like and tried to mould it using felt, to me this wasn't successful so instead for my final piece I will use a sheet of acetate paper and project my design onto the board and just cover the parts I want covered in felt.
I had a plan as to how I wanted to make my final piece, I knew how I wanted to make it, what to use but I didn't plan properly if it was going to work, so I was working on an idea.

combine

For my final piece I want to combine the cloud formation of the hurricane and the textile sculpted art together to create something new. Motivated by Kimura’s ‘Pedocal’, I wanted to produce a textile surface design inspired by his work.

So these two are my final designs that I plan to carry forward.