Choosing to my playful day out mood board as my theme. I felt a connection with this board it made me feel happy and warm. Those fun memories made, as well as exploring my new found love for colour in my work.
Ted Talk
What are your first impressions of this piece of work?
I have seen crocheted coral reef during my studies online. I've always just thought of it as pretty, the natural shapes that could be formed with wool. I have also focused previous work on coral due the interest textured surfaces and patterns, which amazingly have been formed by nature.
What did you think of the idea of creating a hyperbolic crochet coral reef?
At first I automatically thought the coral display would be inspired by nature, I mean the name of the Ted Talk should of given it away really! Maths is not an area I particularly enjoy and I always assume creative people aren't that academic so why would maths be part of art. But I realise now actually maths is a key part of textile, with measurements, stitch counts etc. I am not always the most accurate and a bit of a free spirit who doesn't always like to follow measurements and templates. And in fact with all the curved and spiralled natural crochet forms you wouldn't automatically think of the accuracy involved with its creation.
What will you take from this to use in your own work?
I'm trying to think about what I would take away from the this? The first thing that came to mind was during the talk I liked the community effort that was put into the piece adding to one large coral reef. Like a community coming together to share a picnic together. Will I take some of the maths parts into my work, if I'm honest I'm not sure it scares me. I think it is a fear of not understanding and getting wrong. Perhaps the more confident I become in my work it might naturally make its way into my work.
Exercise 3.3 Knitting and crochet
Gathering together a unconventional mixture of items to create knitted samples.
Wooden stirrer
Metal kebab sticks
Candle sticks
Different sized knitting needles
Coat hanger
Metal straw
I felt my most unconventional knitting needles created my better samples such as the hangers and the candle sticks. Creating loose stitches that distantly resembled the repetitive pattern of knitting.
Sketches
Looking at my collection of samples and observing the key features that interested me.
The next task was to explore materials which could be knitted.
Wire
Plastic bag
Curling ribbon
Shoelace
Ribbon
Washing line
Pom-Pom trimmings
Butchers twine
Thinking about the key words that sum up my theme to help me
decide which of the samples would work best to my theme. The key words I think that
sum up my theme are:
Playful, colourful, warm and soft
Choosing playful tools to knit with to create a varied selection
of knitted samples. I wanted to explore how different shapes such as the hangers
and how different sizes such candle sticks created different styles yet using
the same materials and technique.
Exploring and gathering different materials to knit with was
fun, looking at the colour, texture, thickness etc. to create a variety of
samples.
Pom-pom sample for me stood out as key piece that fitted
with my theme well. The bright neon colours, resembled playballs and felt fun.
I liked the wire sample, but I do not think it is in keeping
with the theme, I like the wavy lines. The wire allows you to clearly see every
twist and knot in the knitting process.
Whilst researching knitting I came across an artist called Toshiko
Horiuchi Macadam, her work is wonderful and sums my theme up. Using bright knitted
yarns to make a knitted playground for children to play on.
http://blog.roomobaby.com/2015/05/public-art-for-kids-by-toshiko-horiuchi.html
My candle stick knitted sample reminds me of the knitted
play equipment being played on and pulled.
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