The beginning of the journey
Try something different even if you don’t think it will work.
That was where I started, rummaging around old bits of perspex, things I have made, collected just have lying around waiting for a moment where they find their place their destiny. I am a maximalist, a magpie I always have been, I look at something and think it will be useful or come in handy and often it does. May take years but it does find its place eventually.
Below is a visual journey of the piece, at a certain point I found these little blue plastic books so they landed on shelves and my shelves are always full of curiosities so out came these pieces that a metal detectorist had found, tubes I had made stuffed with materials and threads from things I have sewn in the past. Some pieces I had experimented with gelli plate on tissue paper that were then glued to acrylic plate. An old tube from a radio I think.
From below
Showing the piece from different angles as it isn’t flat it has depth, little shelves and things raised in bubbles and spirals.
This has been built up over many months, I would come across something in a box and incorporate it into the piece. I start with a vague direction and let the inspiration of finding and placing things happen spontaneously. I haven’t done an assemblage piece before. I have been working on a large piece for over a year that is all sewing, same principle but needlework and to do something in another material/materials keeping to the found objects was a nice was to focus on something else another way of making. Sewing takes a long time and is very focussed and this was fun.
Completed piece below called “The Revival”
