Detail of "Who Are You, Really?
The latest Art Cloth Network call for entry is titled "Blurred Boundaries". My ideas were swirling but I finally settled on working with the human figure, which I rarely ever do. But the theme begged the question: how clearly can we see another person, or are we just left with a blurry, unfocused image of someone? The way we perceive each other and present ourselves in the world is for some reason interesting to me right now. Sometimes you just have to follow up, however weird it seems at first.
I decided to once again use my preferred method of printing the fabric using my gel printing plates. I hand-cut a lot of stencils, taking silhouettes mostly from sewing and fashion magazines, as I wanted to emphasize the posing that people do.
I then used the stencils to try out multi-layered prints, that were offset so the shapes overlap, and get unfocused.
It worked the way I wanted! This is not always the case, so I was happy with that. I proceeded to print and made material in different colourways so I could make more than one piece. I finished two new pieces and have a feeling that I'm not done with the ideas and will add more to this new series.
Here are a few more detail shots:
Detail of "Performance"
Detail of "Performance"
Detail of "Who Are You, Really?"
