part one – workwear.
Great to have started engagement at Lostwithial School, designs for workwear began with a visit to Wheal Martyn Museum of Clay Works. Conversation developed about jobs and vocations, we now have waistcoats for astronauts, aprons for artists and tabards for chemists in construction. With thanks to Artslab.
In a recent project at St Ives Library we were exploring our passion for the sea and I set myself the challenge of going large.
For The Active Looking Project we used mood cards to prompt the design of a mask and discussions about wellbeing. Once again a mix of digital and making skills has proved interesting and popular.
Giving young people the opportunity to wear a mask has developed their confidence with seeing themselves and each other behind and in front of the lens. Originally I was exploring how we might blank out a models features and or break down emotions as in ancient theatre. I am inspired to engage in more costume making/disguises in the future.
more test prints toned with tea, bleached with soda crystals, enquiring how we can reinvent wet processes to make them sustainable and inclusive
My first series of digital cyanotypes – pasty wrapper, ketchup splash, washing up and after dinner speeches. Using my diary of smartphone images I have selected a series of images with a theme and worked through the processes of photography using a hybrid of digital and wet processes.