The week following the pitch was quite unproductive and was at a stand still. Melissa was in London and so there was a miscommunication in production. Even though the presentation feedback was reasonably positive, the amount of research and ideas we'd done had overwhelmed us. I was reluctant to make as I didn't know what I was making, and so didn't want it to be irrelevant. Melissa comes from a Graphics Design background, where in-depth research is heavily encouraged, whereas in Textiles, the drawing to making happens rather quick. We needed to find a way to adapt to one anouther and gain an advantage from our skills.
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| Collaborative Drawings |
Our tutorial with Mark and Kate helped greatly and reassured us not to panic. We did just need to condense our ideas down and start making. In terms of Manchester architecture, it was too broad and so were suggested to focus on the Northern Quarter buildings. So that day we did some visual research in the NQ and started to design the making of our piece. This week of 'doom' has in fact become beneficial to our work and helped push the group dynamics. The following week we separately produced valuable work, and then were able to regroup and collaborate with what had been made.
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| Sketch of our final piece |
We've planned to re-purpose an existing wooden board, sticking to our BORDER ideas. It will be re-shaped, with layers of metal, acrylic and wood, coinciding with the layers of history and architecture in the Northern Quarter. I plan to elaborate on the acrylic work I've done in my previous project. I will create 3-dimensional forms from designs of our drawing studies, which will then be adhered to the piece, adorning the 2-dimentional space. Melissa will create the wooden base, adding in collected metals to bring in the underpinning elements of industrialization and juxtapose against the other materials. We left gaps to allow the existing architecture to poke through and add to the overall piece.
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