this is really an interim report before the final placing of my textile. after talking to Siân at Summer School i came away rethinking the 'site specific' bit, thinking exactly what i wanted to portray with the piece. it dawned on me that what i was really getting at was the fact Skypeing is an enclosed activity so in order for my piece to work it could be placed anywhere.
so to bring you up to date with my production process.....
i rethought the method for display, i really liked the net idea but made a sample which was simpler like a wire fence structure.
i worked out the size i wanted and drew a grid onto newspaper joining the paper where necessary. i wanted the top and lower edges to be re-enforced so i added a strip of Lutrador. i was still going for a long thin 'tape' like shape.
once finished i gently soaked a bit at a time removing the newsprint and hung it to dry.
i rolled it on a roller to keep it straight - deciding to revisit this technique sometime as i quite liked it with the newsprint colours.
i then sprayed the 'net' with Warhammer Chaos black spray paint a bit at a time. above shows the net with only one side sprayed, something else i might revisit.
i attached the windmills with fishing line placing them in a regular pattern. i decided that the windmills didn't need to move independently, the fact that they are possibly moving all together when placed outside is enough.
i wanted to keep it simple and i feel i have achieved this! i attached perspex rods to either end to stabilise and keep the edges straight. i am hoping this is to be displayed soon so my fixing mechanism can work wherever the item goes.
i took it outside to see how it would react en mass, firstly laying it on a path in my garden. the path behind does distract from windmills so when placing it i feel it needs a paler backing to be suspended to keep the lightness visible
i then draped it from a windowsill where i could see how it worked with the breeze. i finally attached it to my washing line and made a short video but i now need to convert the MP4 into something that i can easily attach the sound recording to and upload easily! so watch this space.
as it is still summer holidays and it might be displayed somewhere in October i am going to wait till November to take it out and about to photograph it in various situ's. i will take it to the beach but i now feel it might work best in an urban environment but the video will i hope be the final outcome.
Well, Happy New Year to all! Just waiting to take all the decorations down now. we have had a very relaxed and over indulged xmas and new year. this Christmas has been a momentous one for it's the first time i have ever super glued my fingers together! only a small spot but extremely painful and i had to get the scalpel out to release myself from myself! it wasn't as if it was something for me; i was sticking together a Warhammer model for my son! what with him using super-glue and spray undercoat and myself trying to continue with my 3D lights and melting plastic, my husband said he should have got us a fume chamber for Christmas instead of anything else. if i was at work i would have had to fill in umpteen COSHH (Care of Substances Hazardous to Health)forms by now; it is amazing what abuse goes on in the home!!!! this is not to say that i am not taking care.
anyway there was time for relaxing and being cruel to the cat! (what is it with bloggers and their cats?). Bunny the cat here sporting a new collar courtesy of Smarties and looking very much like the Christmas tree lights! the other land mark this Christmas was my son's 10th birthday so now he can go to the Games Workshop all by himself and spend hours painting his Warhammer figures and battling. it hardly seems 10 years ago when we brought him home from the hospital looking incredibly like my 90 year old father! Ah well time flies. will get back into the swing of things soon.
