Well here we are. Critical evaluation done - usual thing....struggle to get enough words, then too many words and everything needs to be said. Its done...
The rag book is assembled. See below the layout - which had lost its registration marks in the printing process. I'm quite pleased with the results. I like the images, I think there are too many pages - it becomes a bit tiresome. Some of the images should have been larger. Its done...
Pecha Kucha took longer than I thought. Can't pretend that I'm sorry to have missed giving the presentation.
Further to my tutorial last week, I put out a call for more toys/ornaments. I have drawn, painted and felt tipped more images - often very messily (esp because time is short) which are then tidied up with Photoshop - sometimes changing the colours completely.
More sequencing, positioning, selecting, rejecting (quotes and images). A third mock up book. The notes on stitching have been included this round. I'll be seeing Sarah Angold today before I see Neil to enquire whether he might be able to digitally print the book in time for submission next Thursday.
I have to say that I have really enjoyed this unit. I feel, at last, that I am creating something that I relate to, that I like and that I feel is meaningful. It includes elements that I have always liked - naïve and bold images, text and a genuine reflection of how I experience life.
I have decided to omit the historical notes and some of the images from my rag book. Meanwhile I have drawn two more images. Sarah asked for 30 by next week - which can be narrowed down to ten - but it takes me a few hours to draw each image so I won't be able to manage more than five or six.
I also want to use the images in a repeat pattern.
Sarah called my work 'Controversial Craft'. I like that.
Found a 'Call for papers' on Facebook for a conference called 'The Subversive Stitch Revisited: The Politics of Cloth' at the Sackler Centre, Victoria & Albert Museum - 29th and 30th November 2013. I definitely want to be there - not as presenter though. 'The Subversive Stitch' is the key text for this unit.
Attended an acrylic painting workshop this week. Lots of mark making exercises, painting on card and painting on canvas.
Spent a lot of time this week trying to sequence my rag book, positioning images on the pages, matching images and words from the questionnaire and making it look like a single collection by including the colourway within the images or around the images.
Tutorial with Sarah Angold. My heart was sinking as I heard her telling Vanessa to experiment and not concentrate on the end result. My work is a million miles away from Sarah's perspex jewellery. All the old doubts crowded in - I'm an old girl, who am I kidding, what makes me think I have an iota of creativity or taste. I'm a laughing stock.
But I know that I love creating, that I love looking at others people's work, that I don't like everything I view and that I have loved creating the images for this project.
Sarah liked them! Not all of them. She called it 'controversial craft' and she injected a less 'serious' note. I have been trying to include all 40 responses, the serious research etc. She said I should select, edit, exclude etc. She liked the idea of seeing the responses while not knowing the question. She made it all a bit more 'edgy'. Relief! And back home I started another image with renewed enthusiasm.
