Watercolour, next to me hand stitch samples. I love the different warm colours in these samples.

After dissolving my stitched piece, i wanted to see what it looked like against a wall. I did this piece with brickwork texture in mind. I didnt quite find the right colour bricks! 

 More Sampling...

All of these samples I have based around my map work of Manchester....

I put this one in black and white as it emphasises the texture of the threads and layering.

This is the same sample, I used dissolvable fabric on the map stitching and then layered lots over my dyed samples.

This is just dissolvable fabric on top of one piece of dyed fabric

Development

 After adding my 'dissolvable fabric maps' to my shirt I dyed my shirt a terracotta colour to represent the colour of bricks. It didnt quite work out the colour I wanted but it shows the 'hidden' theme that has gone on through the project....

These pictures dont look like stitch, they remind me of blood vessels, something you would find in the inside of the body.

Group Work...

Me, Lara, Grace and Lamia spent a few hours drawing from our pictures and samples. We used large pieces of paper and filmed the whole process. We are hoping to add it to our final film piece.

Hand Stitching

On the train home I looked at the textures on top of brickwork,using french knots and hand stitch. 

It took a while but i really liked the textures achieved. I did it onto dissolvable fabric so that I can dissolve it later to see how well it stays together. 

 First Ideas for Final Film

Over the last few weeks we have done a lot of experimental filming and so we have lots of ideas.....

• Aiming for a film that will be 5mins long
•  Starting with a breathing sequeal; reprensenting the 'hidden, inside' element, move to  flashing images of our samples 
• It is proving difficult to include all of our filming in our final piece, we have lots of different elements to try and include, something we need to refine.
• 'Slow is beautiful' references, speeding up film and slowing down
• Reference to brickwall, this has given us our main colour palette for our project
• Our samples projected onto Emma and Vincent seemed to work really well, so we are aiming to include these
• Dissolvable fabric film, speeding up and slowing down to the music
• Building up colour intensitys from our samples.......... 

We still need to develop these ideas alot further.....