There are so many 'old things' I want to post about, but life goes on quickly and makes it difficult to catch up!
There has also been an event I will post about shortly (Black History Day held at Hendon Library within Black History Month, with the African Cultural Association).
Meanwhile, I have been experimenting with a design that I want to use on a series of garment and accessories and have been wondering how best translate it.
The starting point is some ink experiment for a design exercise with 'line' that I did some time ago. I like the end result though, the colours and the flowing line.
Inkjet print of a coloured ink experiment about 'line'on paper |
I have noticed, though, that I tend, or the design tends, or both of us do, to turn the abstract into something flowery.
It looks like there is a' flower entropy' within my work.
I have previously made conscious attempts to go the other way, i.e, from flowers to abstracts, but whether these have been successful or not, I have realised that there is definitely a connection between the two.
Watercolour on WC paper, flowers into abstract |
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Detail as above |
I had pondered in fact, whether to translate the design into a counted thread technique, that would best show the transition between the floral and the abstract line elements, but in the end I decided to use free-style hand embroidery.
So, with hand stitches, thick thread, the use of the circular frame and the addition of some applied organzas, I have steered towards flowery materiality again, leaving the linear behind!
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Anyhow this is why I have decided to call this series Flower Entropy, which is probably what my garments and accessories bearing this embroidery will be called
The design showing its evolution and the addition of coloured organzas applied with isolated cross stitches |
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