Following yesterday’s Making Workshop (read back a few days for the background), I’m now clear about where I want to go with the Hoop Art Project. The Workshop was so inspiring, lots of Makers creating some wonderful embroidery and embracing the Art of Embroidery. I’ll be sharing some of the results over the next few weeks. My ultimate aim for the project is to move the embroidery skills into a new story which I’m calling Stitching a Story. This idea isn’t new, the Bayeaux Tapestry is a good example of a stitched story created hundreds of years ago. My stitching story will be a little more manageable - I’d like to create my stitched story from my memories of developing the Making Workshops.
At the moment, I have a blank canvas ! - I’m going through a process of finding a way of bringing the memories together as well as thinking up ways of symbolising the memories. I know I’d like words in there, I’ve also got a need to develop scattered red flowers ? - not sure where the flowers come from ? or the red ? There will be many more things I want to include but I’m not sure of anything other than the idea, at the moment.
I think, it’s quite important to find a process of thinking, recording,sifting and placing (and possibly more things) memories and ideas in my stitched story. I’m hugely inspired by a textile artist called Jessie Chorley. Check out her work with the link. I’m also using inspiration from another artist Cas Holmes, check out some of her work here. She also has a wonderful book which is very much about the idea of stitching a story, again take a look here.
My stitching a story project will be one of my longer projects, I think. I’m not sure how long it will take ? but I do want to spend quite some time developing my inspiration and planning process before actually creating my piece. I’ll, of course, share the journey here on the blog.
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