Tuesday 24 November 2009

Chapter 8 Experimental embedding

More paper making for the grids.  Had planned to do this in the garden and made the pulp the day before the weather forecast was somewhat better - best laid plans....!

Ended up in the kitchen again- seesawing on my boards inside a plastic box to squeeze the water out.  The paper making does get easier with practice but drying room is still a problem when its wet outside.

1. Top - embedded jute scrim and I dropped a few different splodges into the wet sheet

bottom - a bit of silk waste trapped between two sheets


2. Top - This is my prison window!

bottom - I embedded a heavy pink plastic grid that used to be  packing - but it fell off when dry - the embossed pattern was much more interesting anyway.


3. Top - The aforementioned heavy pink mesh trapped between two sheets

bottom - laid some withdrawn threads as a grid and surrounded with pulp.


4. Top - Used a round grid with silk scraps in a grid in the middle

bottom - fruit net trapped between two sheets - may cut away the protruding bits


5. Top - One of the drawn thread grids embedded - I do like the subtle colours in this one

bottom - it's hard to see the grid, which is a bit of cotton scrim pulled into eyes over a splodgy 'eye' background.


6. Top - Lime green plastic bobbin lace I made for a previous chapter - which has scanned blue again!

bottom - one of the weavings I did embedded in a green splodgy sheet


7. Top - Another drawn thread grid surrounded by pulp

bottom - the felt grid made in the previous chapter surrounded by pulp


8. Top  and bottom - two with silk waste grids in the centre and allowed to dry with curves in the surfaces


9. Top - Jute scrim grid sandwiched, silk waste pressed into edges and the sheet dried after moulding around a bowl.

bottom - felt grid embedded in  pulp and dried around a bottle to make a curved surface.


8 and 9 could not be scanned as they were 3 dimensional and have photographed orange when they are definitely red.












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