Contractually I have to produce three options for this job. This one I've just done is where I start working from odd feelings, intuition, untangible thought processes, those things you like but cant really be intellectual or elloquant about.
I like patterns, I like the the fact that the boarder is more prominent than the images in the holes made by the travelling boarder. I like rugs as I said.
This analysis dosent get you through an MA degree but ar'nt you allowed to work from a sub conscious level. Does the artist need to justify intellectually what they do. The answer is yes it seems to me ….well give us a break dudes and history can gfill the gaps, if indeed you feel there are any?
The commission is very formal in some ways and I may even do a fourth design if I have the time which goes away from representational images of buildings and machinery. I have to present these drawings and some other diagrams to scale and stuff. Time is running out as I am full of fish at the moment as well.
But weaving is an interesting thing and I would like to explore this process, actually see how to create a simple pattern. even better I would like to make the dyes and colours myself. But I am paid to make a history mosaic of an expanding town in the Cottswolds not tart about with coloured yarns.
And anyway I havent got a loom and thats a bit too long winded for me too make as well.
