Insect Damage

Free cutting with Michiko Kawarabayashi

 Free cutting workshop using paper and card with Michiko Kawarabayashi at Corsham Court.  the idea of this workshop was to release ideas without thinking about your final output.  The work that was produced was then displayed together and various techniques observed could be used in further works.  I used a paper cup and cut round in a spiral of varying thicknesses to create the piece below.

 

Some examples of Michiko's work

Marks of Time

Observations of marks of time - to be remade in lace and other textile techniques.

Initial Investigations

Having not really know what direction I was going in I started the year doing some initial studies of specimens from Corsham Court and The Bristol City Museum.  The drawings from this work is creating the base of this years work and getting my hand into drawing once again.  Here are a few of my favourite photographs.

After ALOT of changes

Ok after a lot of toing and froing about my ideas I believe I am now working on some really creative stuff.  I have slightly moved away from trace memories and am now working with marks of time.

My Textile idea has moved on from lace fossil traces on rocks, to looking at the marks of time on locations and items.

My Art idea now involves the effect of insects on our environment - looking at there destructive patterns on leaves and wood etc.

Then of course theres the dreaded dissertation where I am investigating science in art, looking at anthropologists that have used there research to create what we now view as works of art.

So thats a quick catch up on my progress so far.