We were given a square of white fabric to work with - to experiment with how material works - the effects it can create by stitching it in different ways, S-T-R-E-T-C-Hing it, TWISTing it, SCRUNCHing it, or letting it fall in its own way and just respond to what it wants to do.
The white material was, for starter, not the nicest of fabrics to work with - it has no character and even as I experimented with it, it still felt like it would never be able to achieve the effects I wanted it to. And those effects relate to the wire armature. I wasnt going to insult the beautiful spiral by draping it in a hideous, boring white cloth. No, I wanted texture, I wanted creases, I wanted folds, I want to be able to see through it. At one point I was considering using a pair of opaque tights that would hug the wire model, but again I felt like that material didn't have enough substance to it. I found a fabric that had personality - it was thin, almost opaque, a dark red colour, that would stitch beautifully but was also able to express itself. As I stitched it onto the wire, it created forms that were better than I could have hoped for - it fell and twisted of its own accord, and, possibly due to my rather basic sewing skills, it scrunched in places, but then just around the spiral it would be held taught. When photographing it, I used the light to convey these forms which really speak for themselves:
They gave me the inspiration for the following gestural drawings - I used charcoal to really define the forms and emphasise the lines - trying to create a visual onomatopoeia:
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