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References

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Images and Films

Aavs.la/ with Poetic Kinetics. https://vimeo.com/192081093
Albers, Anni. Intersecting. 1962. Tate.
Anadol, Refik. https://vimeo.com/141749628
Anonymous. Animation Experiment. https://vimeo.com/2869536 
Azevedo, Nele. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezEqvq0c2U 
Iko, Genki. https://vimeo.com/73016062
Low, Adam., 2020. Imagine...Marina Abramovic; The Ugly Duckling. Lone Star Productions Ltd.
Penberthy, Marianne. https://vimeo.com/137335626
Smilde, Berndnaut. Nimbus Atlas. https://vimeo.com/253452365 

The Burn

Considerations practicalities for the burning of the piece. 

Outside.

• Water hose nearby.

Hung in a line on the washing line. 

• Associations with clothes/ womens roles / Need the washing line after.
• Light one and let the rest catch.

Sewn together in a long column. 

• Light at one corner the rest goes up.
• Could catch in a big way

Weather.

• Wind: stabilising the piece so the burn can be controlled.
• Rain: relighting the fire.

Filming.

• On iphone, easier to control, move around and adjust filming to get detail.

Test Fire

2x A4 pieces of tracing paper. Lit outside by the studio. Hung from the studio, the wind was catching it a lot, making it impossible to light (so need to light the fire outside so have another source of flame. Or place some fire lighter in by the seam of the paper (but don't want it to go up too fast).

 

Tracing paper burns in a very beautiful way. If you watch the edges of the flame are preceeded by these white fingers of the material igniting, they rush forward clasping at the paper, racing up. The fire could really catch and the lot go up, or it could have to be totally restarted. It could burn and parts of it fly off. Spontaneous possiblities ! One things for sure it definitely disappears without a trace. All that work, energy and time gone with just the memory to remain.

Could burn it along the ground... less wind. Might be easier to control, but would that compromise the encounter?

Lovely burnt edges. Fascinated by the way it burns. Need to capture its movement as it burns up the length.

Weather report says rain so the ground may be wet tomorrow, slightly higher winds. Risky, but this is the point of an encounter, to go with the moment. It's all down to chance.

The Stitch

Adding stitch. Happenstance dictated the red thread as that was on the machine, until it ran out and then to white. Stitching words of hope to counteract the futility. Loose tension, free motion, relinquish control. Utilise cut out pieces to stitch words on. Each piece of tracing paper seems to partner up with another. So go with. Decide on 4 x A2 pieces. Stitch them to hold them together. Then stitch them together in series like a totem. 

Words chosen as a counteracting action to the dystopian theme. Hope; cause there is always. Love; is all you need. Compassion; for embracing difference, empathy and care of others. Celebrate; each other.

Considering a live encounter on the day. Take the risk. Hang them outside by the studio.... allow the camera to study the detail of the work, explore the hand of human endeavour. Give that time. Then set light to them. Film the burn. Watch as it disappears without a trace. All that work. That feels hard. Cause I feel precious about these pieces. Time invested. A relationship has been struck.

Stitch with thread, without thread. Puncture holes, traces of stitch. Red thread. Brings to mind the red shoes story, temptation, redemption. What is it about red thread. The history behind the use of red thread in peaceful activism by early stitchers. The exquisite use of a broad red stitch along a jean selvedge giving the tailoring provenance. It was totally right that the machine was already threaded with red. 

The fire will be lit on self entitlement.

And will end on celebrate.

Craftivism; time spent on slow stitch embuing the object with intention and meaning. The words become laced with power. The art of gentle protest. Through the manipulation and mutation of the text I have processed my responses, dissolved my frustrations at humanity mildly... and through the red stitch I have added a more upbeat manifesto. The stitch has been elevated by its red colour, the words given extra potency.

www.craftivism.com

The Make

So today is all about get it done.

A2 tracing paper pieces. 

Draw, trace, stitch, cut out.

Be governed by happenstance ('biological accidents')

Let the materials dictate. Be restricted by time. 

This will be the transformative object. "Bollas sees the creation of meaning as emanating from the use of evocative objects..."  "...object as process: a site of ego integration and burgeoning subjectivity which generates an experience of transformation "(Marks 2016). What Marks alludes to is, we ourselves impose meaning on objects in order to understand the world. Marks suggests Bollas's meaning here, in relation to the object, is that it can be anything from a job, to an experience, a relationship to a physical object. I will use this handmade object, embued with intention, as a vehicle to explore the transformative effect on me as the artist, destroying a piece of my own work. Work that has involved my time and labour, which exists and then no longer exists. It will allow me to interrogate the process of my practice.

Enlargements of text, mutated text, placing under the tracing paper, in multiples so words cross over, only tracing certain parts of words. Tracing in black and white pen. Also tracing over my  original hand drawn lines from highlighting the initial words that stood out. Those tracings become the cut outs, cutting out what stood out. Utilise the original text 'vile, smug ideologies' but incorporate a more upbeat manifesto to counteract...(Thanks Martin Speed tutorials). 

Mutation

Enlarging the text on the photocopier, to render the text unrecognisable; glitch. Mindless copying often throws up stuff.

Loving the edges of the text slipping, breaking up, rough edges not clear at all. 

200% / 400% words become marks, devoid of meaning.

A2 tracing paper, light box, white pen, black pen. Trace round shapes. Overlay. Draw only sections of words, render them useless. Slight reveals of partially formed language.

If the paper moves by accident, follow it, make news marks. Jumbled obliterated a glitch in the system. Mutations.

Delicate marks, hand of the maker. Will add cutouts, stitch. So the work is detailed, has held time. Beauty.

And then destroy it. Pointless destruction. Perfect.

Better for being back with materials, the physicality of simple materials. I have always loved working with tracing paper, not only in an obvious way of the translucency, but the paper itself, half paper, half plastic but not in between, it is its own. It is brilliant to draw on and cut through, it holds itself. and it runs through the machine great, with or without thread. The simple black and white of the text is perfect for this. 

The process of making is a meandering one. After a few days of block, of struggle, you come out the other side after an interaction with a material and suddenly you are back absorbed in the delicious art of making. 

 

What should have been here is ....

Henri Bergson. Time, temporality, non-linear

Jean-Paul Sartre; Existentialism & Humanism

Text & Textile Etymology

Liminality

Newmaterialism / materialities

Human exceptionalism

Jaques Derrida Theory of Trace

Speed Tutorials

 

*moan alert*The speed tutorials have completely thrown me off..! A lot of different advice and perspectives on top of which what I had in mind has actually not worked, so a bit stumped. Been finding the whole thought experiment hard to keep fluid thoughts going. Not because of the work itself but there has been so much going on behind the scenes; three shows and a gallery to make work for...means my attention has been broken too many times. Now the Covid situation is changing again the impact of time management and planning again is having to be altered. These last few months, in my determination to still make and exhibit work, I have had to continually adapt plans and actions to fit in with other peoples needs and restrictions. I like to know where I am at, what is ahead so that I can properly delve into my work. This has been so challenging. So the thoughts of the thoughts experiment have been disrupted. Move on deal with it. Time is moving on decisions need to be made. A beautifully exquisite sewn text piece that leaves no trace is wonderful, I love it but there is not the time to do it justice.... who says this needs to be finished? Or even literal?
Striving for a finished piece is the perfectionist in me. I am trying to communicate an intangible idea in a tangible form. And have imposter syndrome. 

 

Tried to stitch the words. Dissolvable thread and fabric. Just not happy with this. If I am to do it needs to be delicate exacting work, I am too pressured by time to do this justice. I did try these two in water afterwards just to see if it works.

It is a really clunky film, but an experiment all the same. 

Its not sophisticated enough, a bit rubbish. So. Time to move on.

What came out of the tutorials, what has been whirling round my head since ?

Time, its passing; non-linear

Breath its mark, life evident

Text. the written word, its meaning, its strength, its entanglement in textile.

Intangibility

Mutation....g;litch

Destruction

Destruction

Burn, dissolve, melt, tear, rip, explode, cook

Mutation

Change words, draw over text, as done before, then destroy

Human beings an error, futile existence

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Feeling very frustrated and stuck

Tried to look at analogies and synonyms of words but just not grabbing me.

So back to the photocopier, enlarge enlarge. The text, the words are what has me tied in knots...they have filled my head throughout..so..to that...Mutate the text so its unrecognisable.