Reflections from Drawing Week 2
Friday, 12th February 2021
The second drawing week of the Sampling module was focused on creating more three-dimensional work and exploring form, texture and shape. I decided to continue my work looking at the interconnection of lines, inspired by my photographs of yarn and subsequent motifs from these images.
Previous work - inspiration in drawing week
I began working small-scale with paperclips, bending and twisting them with pliers and connecting them together, creating a form reminiscent of my yarn motifs. I was pleased with the outcome of this as I liked being able to completely change the form of such a common object and turn it into something new, combining shapes to create something larger and more complex. This was a great starting point for me, as it gave me ideas to increase scale and work with different materials in a similar way. As I progressed throughout drawing week, my initial paperclip experimentations were a great basis for my work.
Informed by my paperclip samples, I then worked larger-scale using thick wire. This was a slightly different process with different results, as instead of twisting and connecting several small objects, I was working with a long, continuous piece of wire. This presented its own challenges and rewards - whilst the wire was somewhat more unwieldy than the paperclips, I really liked the look of a continous length of wire being twisted into several different shapes and intertwined with another different colour of wire. This larger piece felt more organic to me than the paperclip piece - the continous length of wire flowed more, and I didn’t have to combat the awkward bends and creased of the paperclip when creating my shapes as I was just working from a straight piece of wire. Working on this piece allowed me to further explore the ideas of interconnection, and provided great inspiration to me throughout my project.