In ex 3.3 I came up the the idea of using crochet which is essentially a chain stitch into a bicycle chain. I’ve used the chain here with tea, to rust stain the shape of the hills I see from my garden. While reviewing my work for assessment, I felt that I would like to take this further as I hadn’t time to develop it while refining work at exercise 5.
This found object has layers of meaning for me. The impact of bicycle tracks eroding the landscape (a bike path runs across this hill), the chains of the industrial past in the area, many metaphors like chained down, chained to the past etc.
I used the rust drawing as a rough guide and crochet chains of varying lengths to make the bike chain drape in a hill top route. The wire it hangs off is a little soft but the flexibility aided the process. I’m really excited by the form of this, it’s as if the sky is holding up the hills! Many of my photos for the gathered drawing exercise focussed on edges and this fractal is patern can be found from skyline and cloud shapes to the edges of lichen or water fall ripples.
