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Assignment Five – Stage 5 – Sorting
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Assignment Five: Sorting
Sorting Reviewing the sampling process proved enlightening. Stepping back from my work and viewing as independently and critically as possible was a valuable, if quite challenging, exercise. However, I had been quite thorough in evaluating each piece so I had already started the process when I reached the sorting exercise. A number of the pieces […]
Assignment Three: Part Three – Stage 4 –
Project 1 – Moulding from a surface The moulding relief paste was far and away my favourite medium for this exercise. The paste combines well with textiles, takes crisp imprints, remains maleable and can be coloured, stitched and worked into. It is also accepts embedded objects well. The variety of pastes available (pearl, matte, gloss […]
Assignment Three: Sorting
Reflection on Assignment Two
Of the two sets of techniques I was initially much more comfortable with the joining exercises. I quickly became frustrated with the early wrapping exercises as it was difficult to find subjects with good anchoring points, meaning that I felt I had much less control over the nature of the finished piece. I was repeatedly […]
Assignment One: Sorting
Having reviewed all the work from this assignment, I felt that the most successful pieces were as follows: Folding and pleating I felt that these were the most pleasing pieces within the folding and pleating exercises. However, whilst I enjoyed making them, there are challenges in interpreting such sharply defined shapes in a texile medium […]
Assignment Two: Sorting
Having spent some time evaluating all the pieces I made for Projects 1 and 2, I felt that the following were the most successful, either as pieces in their own right or as a springboard to further ideas/samples. Project 1 – Joining Exercise 1 – Straight flush edges Exercise 2 – Straight edges with a […]
Reflection on Assignment One
I enjoyed completing this assignment and, whilst not all my practice samples were successful in most cases I understand why and will learn from these samples to adapt and refine future work. In particular I am developing a better feel for matching materials to tools (the paper choice in the crumpling exercises for example) and […]
Assignment Two: Joining & Wrapping
Part Two of this module is in 2 sections, joining and wrapping. These are broken down as follows: Project 1: Joining Exercise 1 – Joining straight flush edges Exercise 2 – Joining straight edges with a gap Exercise 3 – Joining curved edges Exercise 4 – Overlapping edges Exercise 5 – Forming corners and angle […]