Open Ended

For this final project I wanted to work further with materials I've used throughout the semester. I created a textile piece that involves rust staining. Using leftover fabric from the skin project, I wrapped jersey knit cotton onto very rusty objects around my home. The image below is the tire frame on a bicycle. 

Here I have wrapped fabric around the entire bike handle and wrapped the fabric onto two very rusted bells. 

After 48+ hours of dying, this is the result.

When i put the fabric onto the gate for drying i discovered my interest in the draping form of the fabric. I went and got textile stiffener/draping liquid and soaked the fabric entirely to make it a bit rigid.

Time, Space, Culture

I continued working with cypress knees as well as the natural world. I began by casting the cypress knees i have in white paraffin with a surface layer of encaustic to create texture. My intention was to explore how the recreated knees work in the space in which they could have come from, and how they may convey the sense of deletion or removal from the contrast they create with the landscape. 

my knees vs their knees