Click here for an overview of Day 14. LB: More research with horizontal knitting... Today I removed my installation of horizontal knitted sculptures, one by one. I removed the one installed with a chain first, but, sadly, forgot to take a photo of just the 2 straight sculptures. I was definitely distracted by having some lovely visitors....so here they are inspecting the two horizontal knitted forms: It's been absolutely wonderful to be able to have face to face conversations with other students and staff who have been able to visit us at Real Space. Real People! It's very useful to hear their thoughts about my work and also to have this image for scale. It makes me realise that the red barriers are more effective when they're lower. Here is the same piece of knitting installed at different heights, with another visitor for scale, and a photo including the 'frame': I definitely find the sculpture tensioned with steel wire at waist height the most effective and interesting. I know that I'll find it hard to just install one sculpture in this space though. I have recently been had my work described as 'maximalist' and I recognise that that term describes my practice well. However, I know that for maximalism to be successful, it also needs to be carefully synthesised and very well thought through. Editing my normal busy practice to just one piece of knitting feels extremely daunting, frankly. This is something I need to consider in more depth in the next couple of months. I need to decide whether and how to develop this idea further. My plan is to knit a different sculpture or sculptures to be installed in this way. There are many things to consider: Form, colour, surface, to felt or not to felt? Accentuating the associations of knitting and body could be interesting. Red is very emotive, but I feel that I need to explore other colours too, as I use red so often. Maybe black, or the colours of my flesh, a self portrait? Felting my knitting gives the sculpture more body so I might find that any wider sections would be less floppy... So, there are plenty of things to explore with this idea. I thought I'd also include a photo of me, at work with my red knitting, kindly taken by Donna Upchurch. One advantage of being the self designated documenter is that there are very few photos of me, but I do think that it's also important to document the documenter!
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