60cm of telephone cable, split half way and the inner wires woven into a bug. Telephone is bugged? The way bees communicate is incredible, we could do it better even with all our technology we fail. Insects are undeniably part of place, they are part of the circle of make and maintain.
Willow twigs and wool, and deep contemplation.
I think that this wooden strip is for edging birch ply to make it look solid. It was gleaned from my local scrap store. As a continuous strip used as a warp, it formed an awkward cylinder, by overlapping the strip at the join and merging the weft it forms an elegant almost basket. Using an ombré yarn has produced a very pleasing colour transition, I’m particularly pleased with this piece. I feel that it has a gravitas whereas some of the other experiments seem very forced and gratuitous.
I need to find a source for more of the strip but could play with creating more forms based on exploring this technique endlessly perhaps. I am put a little in mind of some works I saw in Turner Contemporary gallery by Eva Hesse.
A dumped couch was disassembled to rescue a spring warp, simply woven with a cotton weft. I was tempted to wet it and encourage rust emphasising the discarded element. This would perhaps feel too much borrowed from Alice Fox who works extensively with rust in her work. I do like rust though, I enjoy the richness of iron stains on rock faces and river pebbles.
Packaging plastic mesh from a carpet shop, with a binding tape weft. I’m really liking weaving- even simple materials seem elevated into elegance. An d the process is so engaging. I have been feeling very stressed and the weaving process is so therapeutic. In and out , round and round. Like time ticking, earth turning, it is present moment and strongly linked to the past.
Gathering. I used a food produce bag to gather things from nature. A foraging . Fragility of nature. A nod to plastic waste polluting the countryside. Some interesting metaphors to be found here.
using willow twigs as a warp and willowish tones from my theme as a weft. It may be interesting to use measured lengths of weft according to distance or time walking trails. I could look for proportions of colour in a landscape and use in colour block. The elegance of willow branches is well represented in this linear form. I could also soak in water for a day and this would make the willow flexible enough to bend into a circular form – with the opposite ends woven together..