Thursday 13th September - Discussing Ideas

Today, I had a chat with Jo. We had a discussion about my work, my ideas and where I have got up to. She told me to photograph everything which I thought was a good idea as I hadn't really been doing much of that. I hadn't known that it was important. A good idea would be to on Tuesday especially, seeing as we were experiencing all the different workshops, take a picture of the setup of what we were going to do, a couple of my work in progress and then one at the end to show the end result. This would help my blog and help me to describe what I have been doing and how useful it has been.
Also, the trip that we made to the museum seemed to be kind of forgotten about, and we had to do a project on it. The first time we went to the museum, it was kind of sprung upon us on the day and I didn't have my camera with me, but I had still taken pictures on my phone. I took another look at the pictures and thought about what I could do with them - research the things that I liked.
In the Hart gallery, I was drawn to the islamic calligraphy and the old Quran's that were on display. A possible idea that I have thought of from the calligraphy is that I could perhaps enlarge it, draw certain bits of it, add a background maybe, draw some of the patterns with it. These are all ideas that I am going to look into further and maybe I could develop some of them into final pieces - on a canvas and have 3 that all link to each other.

Also, I could look into the colours and fabrics of ancient tribal india and old indian drawings. One thing I need to find out is if any contemporary artists have done anything like this so I can look at them for inspiration. Another idea could be that if I went down the fashion route, perhaps I could make a western item of clothing with an eastern/indian print - this is one idea I am really looking forward to reserching and taking further.

I want all my work to link together, so when we went to the museum, I was really into the patterns and textiles which I saw in the Asia/India section, and from there I have been looking at pattern. The next workshop that I have is 3D and I think it would be a good idea if I did a wire drawing of the pattern that I drew from the museum. It's an almost paisley with a flower on the side. From this perhaps I could look into paisley further. This trip turned out to be more useful than I thought in the end - I actually got something out of it - an idea, inspiration to research these patterns and texts further.