week 5 & week 6 26/11/2011-08/12/2011

For the last two weeks i have been working on final pieces I still have two directions.
The first is the massage movements. I have made embossing plates and lino cuts of these movements and printed lino and embossed onto somerset paper.

embossing plates

I used this technique because a massage is about continuous movement, pressure points and pressure applied. the process of making these pieces is the continuous line and pressure applied to produce the line mirroring the massage procedure. the pieces would be framed and hung on the corridor in the Alloa campus between the art and the beauty department.

I have also been continuing to work with glass and weaving. this woven piece was fired in the kiln again to fuse it together. I am disappointed with the results as it looses some aesthetic appeal and delicate detail.

I have more pieces in the kiln and I intend to glue it together and miss out the second firing. 

I have also slumped some 1mm stringers and will also be working with these. They are very fragile and delicate and I think I may be able to produce a piece which is thread like. I will also glue these pieces.

Craft techniques and the hand made are an integral part of my practice and although I do not always use the materials of glass and weaving in the traditional sense I feel that the materials themselves and give meaning to the work and add value to the concept behind the piece.  

1mm glass stringers