LATE NIGHT STITCHING

 Last night i picked up this cloth again and continued .... its a reverse-dyed cloth (bleached) of black 100% cotton open weave. I love bleaching cloth where it removes the original colour leaving you with shades of the underdyed colour which can be anything from gold through to reds and sometimes greens. The nuances of colours come from the length of time its left in the bleach. too long and it can strip it right back and sometimes rot the cloth.

Stitching is an intuitive response to the marks created by the dye and the torn cloth stitched onto the original cloth. love that ragged edge created from tearing the strip cloth.

Musing on the piece as i look at it i am getting shades of landscape. This may be, in part, because i am continually looking and walking within the landscape and the mapping project is high in my thoughts and daily doings. There is, to me, definitely a mapping aspect going on here. I akin it to an internal mapping and an external mapping ... perhaps an internal mapping inspired by the external (landscape).

This cloth is not terribly large at present (it is approximatley 80cm x 50cm) - it could grow if i start adding more cloth to it. we shall see




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