Textile artist Hannah Leighton-Boyce held a lecture for her work 'The event of thread'. the piece is somewhat of a live sculpture, where using woollen yarn she had spun herself, she and the village of Helmshore, weaved 3300 yards of yarn through houses and over gardens tracing the lines of which the old mills tenter fields lay. during her research fir this installation she came across some information that mentioned when the mill worked would carry the tentered fabric through the village and some would say it resembled a Chinese dragon parading through the village. I felt this oriental comparison also related to my theme of work currently as I am looking at Thai and oriental sources.
However, on this note I also feel that I perhaps and running out sources and inspiration for this oriental theme and that my drawings are either all too similar or very very different in theme (i.e boats and walls of temples), so on this reflection I feel my sources developing from the old walls into using the word 'peel' and 'decay'. I also feel this development relates to my over ruling theme of future and past.
Looking further into Hannah Leighton-Boyce's earlier works I came across and interesting piece called 'composition - movimentum'.
The piece was created in 2010 and When Leighton-Boyce travelled through London, Berlin and Stroud on foot, by bus and train. She was exploring the relationship between mark making and marking time. I find this interesting because there are many types of mark made here and the fact that it was achieved just through motion of walking, like the tremors of footsteps or a pothole in the road marking the paper is quite fascinating. Reflecting on this idea, I feel i should be a little more free with my drawings and less controlled. This would look fantastic having been machine stitched onto fabric also.
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