Hanging Resin Straws

Experimenting with ways of displaying the resin casts, using magnets attached through the fabric attracted to the iron filings set in the resin. I intend to use a similar idea for my exhibition, through the connection of magnetismand making a hanging form with threads falling through the fabric also.

Resin Straws

Thinking of ways to create this linear connection. I initially didn'tthink this idea of setting the resin in drinking straws would work, I thought the resin would just stick and would'nt peel off.. However I am really pleased with how they have formed. I intend to try several ieas I have of how to display the straws, by entrapping them in fabric and also having them attached by the magnets to see how they hang..

Resin entrapments

Experimenting more with the iron filings entrapped in resin, then using a magnet to create movement within them. Also trying to create some kind of ordre and thinking about how I could possibly embroider them onto fabric, or use magnets to connect them to something. Still thinking how to create this idea of a magnetic network, and making connections.

Metal Paste

I made my own metal paste using metal powder, glue and water. I then painted it onto the fabric. I was quite difficult to stitch into but the idea of the sample is to portray the idea of opposites attracting like magnets.

Entrapped iron filings

Still thinking about the ieda of control and entrapment. Here I have made a regimented structure of small pockets each holding a small amount of iron filings. Thie piece has quite a weight to it and I intend to really experiment with this idea and make bigger samples using a similar structure. Each if the french knots represents the electromagnets in the brain and the networking systems are shown through the loose threads. The iron rusted when i bleachedthe fabric and left it dampbut I quite like the colour left on the fabric and I intend to explore this more.

Controlling the attraction

Recently from researching for my contextualising practice essay I have broadened my knowledge about Communism and how it had such a huge imapct on design and art. I have taken this idea of very regemented structure when making these pieces. I wanted to control the attraction of the magnets, and so Ive made these small samples entrapping iron filings and embedding the magnets within the fabric to see the kind of movement the magnets cause, but to keep this reaction within a small, controlled environment.

Magnetic paint sample

Using magnetic paint on fabric and hand-stitch. Thinking about networking the threads and connecting the fabrics coated in magnetic paint together.

Stitched paramagnetic particles

From stitching a sketchbook drawing of paramagnetic nanoparticles, thinking about the delicacy of the marks on the fabric.

Stitched finding from Hotspur

Collections of findings around Hotspur

The idea of neglected parts of things from reading about the cotton threads exhibition at the whitworth.

Museums encourage telling us about  hidden or neglected parts of their collections, and to confront the past with the present. 

Places where memory is constructed..

Small neglected old parts of things, thinking about the placement and displacement of objects.