Weeds are
useful
In the past
few weeks I have been making fabric to the weed theme, sun prints, lino cuts, printing, painting etc various weed leaves and text .
I had a vision
in my head but it did not look correct when I laid out the various bits. I cut them
up and laid them down as a background and printed the text on some of the small
squares. It looked lovely but I wished to represent some of the weeds so I free
motion stitched in a dandelion, daisy, corn poppy and a nettle. It looked messy
and the drawing did not show up enough. I free motion zig-zagged over the drawn
weeds. Now everything is just one big muddle, fine if you are prepared to peer
and pick out the elements; however it looks dirty, not fresh and wonderful.
The back of
it looks not bad so I decided to leave it exposed just for my own interest and
perhaps for use when teaching.
I think all
my background pieces were too strongly coloured or maybe I needed to leave some
areas blank for my drawing.
I am
determined to find my way to my vision of showing the value of weeds through
textiles. Much thinking needed. Just as I am writing this text a new approach
has come into my mind. We will see.
