set ups etc

For palmsest, I wanted to look at backs of heads (hair) becuse your hair is constantly renewing, and we spend a fortune looking after it even though we dont have to.

hair has alot to do with identity.

Girls especlly cover over there natural haircoulour and change there hair constantly.

Change of hair, change of lifestyle/culture/identity.

Shoes are similar in this respect.

Zareen said when I was taking her photo

"these have alot of history"

Bought for £50 dragged through shit, you leave your mark on them then replace them. A constant loop.

This was the set up in "the cupboard" so all the shops were similar.

Got the idea kind of from the zaberwitz collection.

On other news:

The bedsheet inside out

Trying acrylic painting.

Was looking at http://www.allisonschulnik.com/ when doing it

pillowcase cont.

It looks like this now.

Second years names over the top of the first year in a darker colour.

All the finished first year names.

Tests for how to do the first year names.

pillow

All the first year names have been embroidered.

Phew.

saw this near

Brick Lane.

and a new project has started using thread

I want to embroider on a pillowcase the names of all the final FdA students.

Both first and second year

overlapping one another in similar colours.

I didnt have an embroidery loop.

So I made one from a cheap Tupperware dish.

This had to be picked out.

Reason No 1 for having an loop!

Dress is finished!

I have embroidered on this dress because It was given to us (Bem, Charlie, Emma and myself) by some charitiy workers just outside archway station.

Charitie workers were doing a task of exchange, we gave them some sketches in exchange for the dress, they had been given the dress from a lady whom had exchanged it for some buttons. I like the fact the dress has its own throwaway feeling, and trying to change it from something with no known history to something precious and with meaning.

This was one of the first times we all sort f left the stuidio at the same time and were all getting to know one another. The dress was given at a cross point in time so I wanted to do something special and personal with it.

I was going to embroyder things we loved about London on it, but no one else seemed keen to add anything to it so I started with a knife and fork as the class only seemed at the time to gather and talk at lunchtimes (and I LOVE food).

Hand stitching seemed more personal and appropriate.

Red and blue becuse it is the colours of the univerity of the arts london (CSM). http://www.suarts.org/shop/index.php?page=product_details&product_id=790

And the map of the northen line as it is the bloodline to my new london life.

I have also used a coathanger from our still life project, renforcing my whole junk:treasure idea.

This piece seems too brutal at the moment.

This is why I moved onto the pillowcase idea.

So

That horrible backboard of the unit in the studio is now removed, with help from Gary from the wonderful woodwork department.

Ready to be decoupaged!

Things done at home

Things of interest in the studio today

Shoes

Like the idea that shoes are loved and precious (expensive) commodities.

But then you put them on your feet and drag them through god knows what, ignore them.

They get worn down.

Tossed aside like junk.

darkroom work