January has appeared and I’ve decided to utilise blogger as a means to properly record my experiments, investigations and development of work. It’s nice to get some feedback from Instagram stories but I’ve discovered by posting work by this means, I’m closing the ‘dopamine hit’ loop and often then work comes to a grinding halt. This way, I can still post, and it becomes a record of my work stage and I'm not distracted by how many people notice it and appreciate it. So, I’ll start by showing my samples of Canadian smocking which I had the urge to try back in the autumn, it turned out to be incredibly satisfying and I was very excited to try more. Immediately I found myself thinking about creating larger and/or smaller scale pieces. Dying, dipping in paint or ink. Using unusual materials like leather, plastic and velour - the material I find most difficult to handle! (pausing to consider sensory issues and what I could do with this) But more than anything I wanted to make wall...
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