Some people are starting new work, but I feel that I have enough work as it is, and it would be a better idea if I improved the work that I already have. I had a huge pile of prints from when I first did screen printing and a lot of photocopies of the image that was put onto the screen. One way of almost condensing the pile of work was weaving that was suggested to me by Claire. She told me that this would take 2 images but after the weave was complete, the images would not be recognizable. I didn't want it where the images were not clear, so I tried doing the weave in a different way where the images were more visible. This took a lot longer and in my opinion, it looked a lot better, but the problem was that I couldn't flip it over to tape it all together so that it would hold, It was quite flimsy which is not a good thing. Claire took most of it apart and showed me the other way of doing the weave which meant that the images would not be as clear as I wanted them to be, but the advantage was that it held together a lot better than the first time. It kind of hurts when you look at it though.
Also, I had previously burnt some fabrics and plastics with Danielle, and it was amazing to see the different ways that they burnt and the reactions they had to the heat. One particular fabric that I liked the burnt look of was was Twinkle. Something that I thought of doing with these little samples was to sew them onto the prints that I did of my sister. This way, it would be developing the prints and the burnt samples of fabric would be used. I wanted to sew them on top of the print in the shape of the drawing and fill in as much detail as I could with stitch. This also means that I am incorporating textiles techniques into my work as well.
I colour coded the samples of fabric so that the same colour samples in all the different shades were together and being used on the same print.
The bad thing about doing this was that it took me the whole day. It was so hard to try and get all the little details in right, and also because the fabric had been burnt, it was really textured, and hard to sew over and get under the foot of the machine. I had to keep lifting the foot and putting it over the place that I wanted to sew over.
I finally finished it. It turned out really well. I thought it looked very effective, but on the other hand, I felt that maybe the whole figure theme had been exhausted now. It had started when I first started doing the figure drawings from magazine cut outs and it had ended up with my sister which made it more personal to me. It was time to take this further, but in a different way. I decided to stick with the images I already had, but instead of using the figure motif, I take the patterns I have already drawn in the images and do some screen printing with them onto different papers and fabrics, using toned down colours as I feel that I have used a lot of bright colours and I need to have a balance of the two. I need some calm colours to go with the bright ones. Then, I would bring in colour through stitch instead of the actual inks and backgrounds.
I think that the back looks better than the front. Originally, I would have disregarded the back and not even had a look at it, but it has an intricacy about it that just draws you in. The features on the front side of the print that I have sewed into look naive, almost like an inexperienced person has drawn them, and I don't want my work to look like that. There are a couple of paper stitches I have previously done where I have left the features out, and they turned out better.
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