As I cut the fabric around the pencil lines before sewing the pieces together, the 'negative' spaces in the form of waste scrap material emerged from between them and began to take on the forms of boats, ships, and submarines in my mind. My request to take them home raised a few eyebrows, but consent was gladly given and my colleague even kindly found a bag for them, so now I have quite a haul of the residue of a process, pictured above hanging over a bar to flatten out the creases. The leap of imagination which turns flat drawings into finished 3D objects is amazing, but these leftovers are going to play a part in quite a different process of flat drawing - the inverse of templates, the spaces around chair lugs, which become boats.
Working on more chair lugs this week, the cutting templates had been traced onto fabric and I was struck by the resemblance to my Dad's naval architecture plans. The templates are arranged for economy on the fabric, placed close together, fitted around each other, and drawn around in pencil. Darts and letters for positioning when sewing up are marked on each, resulting in an intricate and mysterious composition of subtle tonality across an expanse of about 250 x 150cm. The back of the fabric is a slightly mottled stone colour with shades of delicate greyish-blue along the sides, which adds to their beauty. As I cut the fabric around the pencil lines before sewing the pieces together, the 'negative' spaces in the form of waste scrap material emerged from between them and began to take on the forms of boats, ships, and submarines in my mind. My request to take them home raised a few eyebrows, but consent was gladly given and my colleague even kindly found a bag for them, so now I have quite a haul of the residue of a process, pictured above hanging over a bar to flatten out the creases. The leap of imagination which turns flat drawings into finished 3D objects is amazing, but these leftovers are going to play a part in quite a different process of flat drawing - the inverse of templates, the spaces around chair lugs, which become boats. I have frequently used my Dad's curves and other shapes (intended for things unknown to me in his drawings) as in this detail above; click on the 'Template Drawings' tag for lots more. My brother was a luthier, and I also have a few brass plates of his which were made for cutting F-holes in violins which have featured in my drawings, such as the one above where it's right in the middle of the picture. However, when I get around to it, this will be the first time I have explored the spaces left between templates, making them into boat forms related to my Dad's practice as well as Neruda's poem.
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Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing as the image breaks up and wears away until eventually it is obliterated by leaves and barely discernible. Photographed at intervals of several months between February 2021 and November 2022, oldest at the top.
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