Strata- cut, stitched, recut. Pieced together. Considering the action of time on place. I’m living an area of geological wealth- I believe the landscape around me contains over 90% of rocks found in the UK . A treasure ground for a pebble gatherer such as myself. I’m as yet undecided which side I prefer, im leaning slightly towards the side with unfinished edges as it alludes more to timeworn rock surfaces.
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I crocheted
the like lichen centres whilst walking in the countryside. I hadn’t realised how desperately I needed to be out and about in nature. I thought about the way that Barbara Hepworth and Polly Binns
Relate to landscape, the act of crochet was an act of marking steps, a form of communication with the place, a measure of being – like a hour glass. I joined the pieces at home, crocheting with silk like a Louise Bourgeois spider, i had in my mind a remembrance of Womb Room, a crocheted environment by Faith Wildling, I know little about her work apart from she was key part of the feminist art movement in the 70’s- very high on my list of artists to research further.
I thought to join the circles using a disorderly , lacy mesh-like lichen on rock. I realise that a larger hook would have given a more spacious effect,
This was the first constructed cloth, I thought that layering may give that soft definition between lichen and rock. The transition between things is and interesting place, day – night, hill-mountain, beach -sea . The piece looks very clumsy and unrefined. I tried to cut some layers in a reverse appliqué fashion, so had included different transparencies of fabric, it may work in other iterations, perhaps a much larger scale would help,
Fraying , and unfinished edges are pleasing though.