ON MATERIALITY
A day of reflection, of repose, of reconnection. I spent the morning scouring vintage stores where I often find fabrics more beautiful than anything I can find a fresh in fabric stores. Maybe its the quality of fabrics past, maybe the variety or maybe just the texture of a fabric well worn and washed. I've been working with pre consumer fashion waste (scraps of fabric from the cutting process which I source from friends who are local fashion designers) which I've really been loving. I've developed a way of working which i guess is a sort of textile collage. I call the medium 'hand pieced textiles'. Its a kind of collage, but also a kind of reconstitution. Rather than layering pieces one on top of the other, its more of a sort of textile construction. Sometimes I sketch out a rough plan of the composition, but this comes out flat. The best approach, as I've found with weaving, is to be fully present with the material. In using offcuts and deconstructed garmen...
