Now you know your ABC

Now here is the ABC in Morse code.  As you can see it is a little uneven on the right, which is not really what I want.  Ideally I was hoping for each row to be relatively equal in length, which hasn’t happened so I am going to have to work out some kind of solution.  At the moment I’m thinking some wall interaction, perhaps using drawing and line to restore the balance.  But definitely NO colour and NO further stuffed shapes.  I am still thinking about having it suspended away from the wall, with the piece itself acting as a type of division.  I am thinking that by having a wall up close behind the shapes it might take away from their three dimensionality.  We will have to see, but one thing is for sure the sewing is OVER! Well for now at least.

Pattern Cutting

For the last week I have been on a pattern cutting course, which has redirected me focus slightly from morse code blocking.  It was fabulously interesting and equally as fabulously difficult.  It did test my patients on multiple occassions.  However, I stuck it out and at the end of the four days I ended up with an actual skirt that fitted me!

A bitty visual documentation of the process

Frida as inspiration

and the final result...
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                        ...and back...

   I know it's not an Alexander McQueen but i'm dead proud of it.  It made the continuous unpicking and restitching worth while.  Definately recommend it! Plus I met some great people :) 

P

Up to the letter P now, slowly getting there.  I like how it is forming, the shapes and colours hold their own quite well.

obviously I couldn't have done it with out the help of a certian little friend

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starting to hang them now.  change in colour represents a new letter of the alphabet.  upto G now still got along way to go.  
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A B and C

...getting there slowly...

its just like learning your ABC

 new piece in progress....

...stay tuned...

"Play becomes celebration; celebration becomes work; work becomes play," wrote Johannes Itten

Barbican -Bauhaus: Art as Life - as it should be

 Went to see the Bauhaus show at the Barbican yesterday, totally amazing, but then the Bauhaus is.  I became really intrigued in the precedence play was given to the creative process.  I am becoming more and more drawn to the notion of play and how important it really is not just to  artistic development but to life in general.  Going on my basic understanding (more reading is necessary) play is encouraged in children, as they learn skills through it, but not encouraged in adults and some how I think it is just as crucial for adults.  I'd like to tap into that within my own work.  The Bauhaus were onto something there, play is so important.

The costumes and puppets made in the Theatre Workshop in particular were really exciting
 

 Paul Klee's puppets