Leather Experiments

I had a range of different types of leather so I experimented using wire with a few of them to structure them, I also folded and sewed some of them, being influenced by the fossils, then I charred and imprinted on each of them with the hot pen using different ends to try different imprints I could make, each leather reacted differently due to their thickness and softness. I discovered the thin, black leather worked very well because the imprints were very clear and the white, thick, soft one scrunched up due to the heat.

Paper Manipulation

I experimented by manipulating, folding and scoring paper to get an idea of some kind of structure I could use before I use the leather.

Fragility, Impermanence & Protection Project

This is our new brief and we have been given the words, fragility, Impermanence and Protection; we have to chose one or all of these words. I'm looking more at protection and these are the fossils I looked at at the museum to develop the accessory I plan to make.

Final piece presented in the gallery

This is my final piece for the 'Lifecycled' brief and has now been framed in between perspects.

Larger Scale

This is the burning on a larger scale. I dropped watered ink down a large roll of paper that was suspended from a wire and burnt into the paper from both sides to get different affects and textures of the burning.

Burning Experiments

Throughout these experiments I used watercolour paper and the technique of burning into it. I used watercolour paper because the burning affect was more effective on this type of paper. I chose to burn it because it fits my concept of broken, delicate, fragile and a falling to pieces state. I also added wax to one test piece to see if that would suit my concept better. From doing this I think it's better without the wax because adding the wax eliminates the delicate/ fragile affect I was aiming to achieve. Once I had tested these out, I developed this into drawing the microscoped tears of a human into the watercolour paper with the hot pen.