Go to the Library and...

...find textile books?

This wasn't what I was supposed to hear.

But later in the day, I did find (in a pile of books) a lovely book about the night sky and constellations.

This for me launched my project.

I began making A1 sketches from this small book based upon the data I read and the images within it.

Ink and nib. 

Inks, using the text that spoke about the movements in the sky throughout February. 

5 minutes. Only using lines and dots. Charcoal on a stick.

Ink and oil bar. 

After reading the book and responding to it, I have come to think that I enjoyed the data I read, however translating this into drawings that i can take inspiration from for my work will prove challenging. This is someone else's drawings, and a historical example of how people and astronomers have read the nights sky. 

I need to think about this idea and do some further research before I limit myself too much.

Large Drawings

How to find your way out of a maze

10 minutes, charcoal on a stick.

Concentric circles using left hand in pencil and oil bar. 10 minutes each. 

Sampling Unit Launch

Some of my initial thoughts from launch lecture from my notebook.

DATA

• Gathering data to transform into a visual format
• Not just statistics and information
• Recording Time
• Drawing, painting, documenting.
• Phases of moon
• Night sky
• Patterns
• MOVEMENT
• 3D resources
• Connections - (document who has seen my blog)
• Cross-section of a tree
• Text

I like to be organised with my initial thoughts, here I can flick through my preliminary thoughts and then begin to filter out what I want to take forward for the duration of the project.
I like the initial title of the prroject and feel as though I have a strong starting point to work with.

Key Pieces from the Presentation

Susan Morris 

Making Art with Sensors

Untitled Motion Capture Drawings

“I’ve been trying to record the movements we make but don’t notice we’re making. All the habitual movements and gestures – I’m interested in where they come from.“ Susan Morris in an interview with Watford Observer.

http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/leisure/localexhibitions/9525470.Making_art_with_sensors/r/?ref=rss

Geoff Mann

Attracted to Light

(Movement of a moth around a light)

Long Exposure series, Nylon, 25.4 x 29.8 x 34.9 (cm), 2005.

These two artists stuck out to me from the presentation. I love the lines created and the idea of recording a movement. 

Evaluation of Origins Unit

From the beginning of the project, my work has progressed mainly through drawing and entering the knit and weave workshops. I have tried to keep drawing throughout in order to give me a clear notion of what to reference within the workshops. I have translated my drawing work loosely into knit and weave to give my samples further depth as well as a context. My work in this unit has been based upon a journey of walking down a street as well as a translation from light to dark. I feel like this theme of architecture comes through within my samples as I found it quite simple to reflect upon the geometry of my drawings within the workshops.

By constantly having a source to work from I was able to edit my ideas by thinking through which examples would translate well into the workshops. I enjoy drawing and I feel that it helps me a lot in the development stage. This is a skill that helps me to move my work forward and in future I know the importance of having something first hand in which to work from.

By including resources from other areas of interest, I was able to develop my work further and think more laterally about what I was doing. By the end of the project I found myself recreating drawings less and thinking further about how far I could take everything so that my samples had more context and value.

At the beginning of the project I don’t feel like I was allocating my time wisely enough to generate enough ideas. As the project moved on I became increasingly interested and engrossed in my work, and in doing so I began to work more often and efficiently. I became fascinated with both the processes of knit and weave and spent a lot more of my personal time in the workshops producing samples. I was focused on making samples that related to my work. My final samples were successful in reflecting this and I am more confident with the work I was producing towards the end of the project as opposed to the beginning. I struggled when I wasn’t entirely sure of what I was achieving but as time went on my work had context and I created resources for myself for something to relate to.