bare naked Heart and skin bits

I had to take the heart parts off the background to focus on them. A few small bits to do and they can go back on. Though i shaped each piece according to my master pattern, they don't quite fit back together because of the way they've been made and handled. No biggie though, the areas where they don't meet means more embellishment and problem solving, which i do like :} The beauty of this method is that it's an intensely personal heart/symbol now.

I've been stitching little tubes and flat plates, and fraying rough nodules and shredding things in sampling techniques and methods for Skin. I have a semi-clear picture in my head of what this will look like when done, but things always change as i go along. You have to listen and watch when creating these pieces. The little bits go where they want and do as they please. I don't mean in an airyfairy "they're ALIVE!" way, but the factors that make them cloth, ie folding, twisting against the bias and the fray factor. Adding them all to a large "background" though is entirely another matter, again that "pic in the head" is one vision, but often the hands and the doing make it something completely different. Welding and canvas and wood may come into play!

I have some grey knit "velvet" i've been hoarding from the Bimbowear days. Hideous fabric in itself, but the colour is yummy, and the stretchiness is perfect to distort with machine work. Experimenting with it has led to even more ideas and possibilities--argh, there i go wandering again! I'm trying to discipline myself, setting aside virtual ideas and actual samples--maybe i can create companion pieces this way :}

Interestingly, as i was doing some online research about including molds as circles and dots, i found out that an "inclusion" in Biology is defined as "a body suspended in the cytoplasm, as a granule". Kewl! (my mind goes everywhere during research!)

I'll post some pictures tomorrow of the sampling.

By the way, i have a compatriot of sorts in this endeavour. Samantha Fahey, who i met online and have been "talking" to , is doing a skin piece also. Her methods are completely different from mine, and it will be interesting to see what she comes up with and how she handles certain issues. I just wish she had a visible online presence--BLOG Samm, dammit, BLOG :} "Baaaaasil!" (She'll get the joke.) Samm's forte is incredibly intricate and precise hand embroidery which just blows me away.   

Comments

[karen]

I am so glad YOU blog!! I am holding my breath waiting to see pictures....well, ok. so I am not really holding my breath, It keeps slipping out of my hand after all...

[arlee]

Thanks Karen--and that pesky turning blue thing is annoying anyways :}

[Mary Anne]

The way your mind works never ceases to amaze me, and then how you manage to translate your thinking into your art! I can't work that way...mine is an evolutionary process because I just dive in and hope for the best, adding elements as I go along. I've even tried to pull out 'stuff' thinking I will use it in a project, but nope...I end up going off in other directions, using entirely different 'stuff'. And research? What's that? Hmmm...come to think of it, maybe that's why my art never seems to go anywhere!!