After the completion of my installation showing the textile process, I turned back to the initial images I had taken. I began once more playing around with the images, by transferring them onto fabric and aging the material, as well as the photograph. However, after my tutorial with Richard Bell, I realised that though I was producing work, I had become a little stuck in a rut and that my enthusiasm for the work/ concept had faded a little. I spoke to Simon about this, as I had a tutorial with him two days ago, he suggested that if I enjoyed working with just the materiality of the industrial machines and the delicacy of the textiles, then why don't I just begin to focus on that for the time being... Very good suggestion!
I have put the research photos up once again around my studio space, so I can look for aesthetic forms that I would like to work with. I plan to start a Henry Moore way of sketching and morph the chosen forms together into some sort of minimalist sculpture...
For further inspiration and ideas, I have been reading a variety of art books, around the issues of craft, fabric art and soft sculpture, as I am looking to create a hard edged, perhaps fibreglass form, which I can then compose wool or cloth or thread around/ in/ through, as I loved how the flax-linen passed through the power loom system in Armley, or the how the bulkiness of the sheep's wool was converted to thin threads through the loom and weave machines.
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