11. Hard Calico
(24/1/23) Today I came in with the goal of executing an idea for a piece that I had been having in days previous. This idea was to get a piece of material, preferably calico as it has a certain grain and raw cotton colour to it that I had been imagining. Then saturate it in a clear drying adhesive that would leave the calico rigid when dry and drape it over something square (in my case a wooden board I had to hand) and ruffle it up and wrinkle it and leave to dry. This piece is me searching for new directions to go in with my artwork in the coming term. This is an idea that really strikes me as it conveys motion, texture, the effect of a moment caught in time and oddly enough the peaks and valleys left in bed sheets. To me there is something profoundly emotional in the idea of these sheets shrouding parts of themselves and standing up of their own accord while simultaneously falling into one another. Below are pictures of the process of this piece. I managed to b...