Intention Blog post 4
This week has been quite busy with workshops as well as producing
my own samples. The Monday drawing session
was good because it was all about loosening us up with drawing, within still
life. After that I attended Elnaz Yazdani’s workshop on machine embroidery. Some
of the techniques I had learnt last year but cording was new to me. Altogether I
learnt tailor tacking, pin tucking, cording and smocking in the workshop. I missed the slashing workshop, but I caught
up on it on Youtube and tried it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaPsMLE2FQ8 . I find this absolutely fascinating because
it involves recycling which I’ve always been interested in and I want to experiment
more.
For these samples I’ve used pigment dye. I put masking tape on
the fabric in parallel lines and hand painted in-between.
I was going to throw away the masking tape afterwards, but I
put the strips of peeled off masking tape together for it to create another
pattern. I was really pleased with this because I learnt another technique of
mark making.
Theses samples were continuing the theme of slavery museum
and African artifacts and I went to another talk this week which was part of Black
History Month. It was really interesting
because the talk was about a book called Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch. In the conversation she said how people keep
asking her where she is from, which is what I get. This Summer, when I was working at the Co-op,
a couple of white men asked me which country I was from. When I said I was from India, they shook their
heads and said that no, I wasn’t from there.
This I found silly and funny at the same time. The most upsetting thing I find is when
people find out where I am from they ask if I can speak the language. When I say no, they get really cross. I can’t keep explaining to everyone that I
have been adopted and brought up by a white mother who only speaks English!
From Wednesday this week, I have started drawing getting
inspiration from the Armoury Museum.
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