Analysis of my own work – with regard to identifying a crossing of boundaries between disciplines.
It is already becoming clearer to me from the first part of this exercise that the boundaries between disciplines are movable and faint.
I loved the MMT course and most of the work produced crossed some boundaries that took it out of the purely textile realm.
Hatchlings which was my final piece is photographed here as a temporary instillation on an outcrop of rock that I can see far in the distance from my window. I used textile processes to experiment with surface and colour, casting to produce the forms, the twigs were gathered on the walk to the rock and loosely woven into a nest. Egg like, though they can’t hatch , inspiration that formed ideas was taken from the landscape ‘hatching’in my mind. It felt a risk to submit as my final piece , It felt as though I may be crossing a boundary to far, risk taking , it was a conscious decision to pursue the idea as it was so strong in my mind. Returning to the place of conception gave me a profound sense of completion.
I experimented with stitching textiles together to form a surface for casting and was really pleased with the resulting textures, then I broke it! Stitching it back together with wire gave it a more sculptural feel, I was pleased with the effect of using a hard material to stitch the hard surface of the resin. The back of the piece I find more interesting than the cast surface, I like the abstract surface , the intersection of lines and the green ink contrasting with the blue fishing line. The design on the front was based on the chalk cliffs, the reverse speaks of the chalk seabed. 
I have mended this rock by using stitch, because the blanket stitch has not penetrated the stone it is as though the stone is wrapped in a blanket of air. It has an air of Japanese Kintsugi about it. Elevating found stone to sculpture using a textile technique, rather than chiselling or taking away material it is more of an additive process. It encourages reflection on the permanence of our natural world.
making this was an interesting process, I saw the rock broken on a path and was immediately drawn to mend it. Wrapping randomly didn’t feel quite the right approach so I considered a stitch that would work and naturally fell upon blanket stitch. This was an impulsive act rather than planned. A response to the landscape. Land art, sculpture, textile.
The task to join edges was fascinating and I indulged my need to peel fruit in one strand and reassembling it by stitching it back together, i then found some leaves and wondered how many segments would make a sphere, combining paper segments with a spiral stitched join completed this trio which I consider to be textile pieces. I then joined 6 squares to make a cubes using pine needles threaded diagonally, I would consider this piece more of a sculpture. It seems further removed from a textile piece.