Textile-4
I use crochet techniques to create the textures and shapes of the vegetables and use textile techniques to stitch them onto plastic bags.
The Final Product Figure
Textile -2
T his week I've been experimenting with different prototypes and trials to test the feasibility of my design plans. Before doing this I did some drawing on the computer and made two design schematics. This one was inspired by the poem ' The Butterfly Hiding from the Rain ' by Lin Ping. The poem describes a butterfly that gets lost and enters the poet's window when a rainstorm is coming. I combined the butterfly with traditional Chinese costume patterns to create my first design, 'Butterfly Labyrinth', and put Lin Ping's poetry on the back of the bag. For the materials test I made a specimen of the butterfly and after the specimen had dried I found that the butterfly's wings were too fragile to be used as a material for my work. The inspiration for this image came from the food I buy every day and I used a combination of fish scales and kale to make this design. I collected fish scales from the market and preserved them by deep-frying and baking the...
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