A couple of finished pieces

While I’ve not been blogging I have been working on various different ideas.

I will be part of the Midlands Textile Forum’s ‘On the Threshold’ exhibition in September and I have finished this piece:

It’s called 1771. I chose the date as being somewhere around where historians think the Industrial Revolution may have started.  The piece is a whole cloth I printed using breakdown printing at Leah Higgin’s studio in 2019.  It’s taken until now to work out what to do with it.

I used running stitch around some of the shapes in the background.  I’ve also used running stitch to outline 10 cogs of differing sizes.  They are not too obvious until you get up close.

And just you know there are stitches, here is the rather ruckled back which now has another backing on it. 

In addition, I've been continuing with my Captivity, Freedom & Identity theme.  I looked to see what image is used to represent depression and found that one of the images is a teardrop.

 

I made three wire teardrops which I wound wadding around and a layer of fabric.  The first is called Tears of Oppression.  It doesn't photograph well because there's black on black. It is tightly bound and has chains and closed padlocks.

 

The second is Tears of Transition which is grey.  It has bits of knotted fabric and chains falling off and open padlocks.   And lastly there's Tears of Joy which is shades of gold with beads.

I've got lots of ideas that I'm mulling over.

 

Watch this space for new work.

 

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice