Here I’m ‘growing’ the shape by slashing the fabric and then fraying.
Image 1 – Slashing a square of fabric to create the shape:
Image 2 – Several slashed squares. The shape slowly appears:
Image 3 – Close up:
Image 4 – Close up:
Image 5 – Close up:
I decided to have a play with bondaweb and thread waste to ‘grow’ a piece of fabric!
Image 1 – First I covered a piece of bondaweb with yellow, white and silver thread waste:
Image 2 – With another piece of bondaweb on the top I ironed to bond using greaseproof paper to prevent scorching:
Image 3 – My bondaweb thread sandwich:
Image 4 – Off came the top backing paper:
Image 5 – Off came the other backing sheet to reveal my bonded square:
Image 6 – Close up of the square. You can see the texture of the melted glue and in the right light it sparkles a little:
Image 7 – My chosen shape cut out from the bonded fabric square:
Image 8 – The remaining bonded fabric square (I like this more than the actual shape itself!):
Ways to disintegrate fabric…
Image 1 – Fraying the edge:
Image 2 – Fraying the edge and the inner:
Image 3 – Cutting into the square and fraying:
Image 4 – Fraying inside and outside of the fabric shape:
Image 5 – Cutting into the square and fraying:
Image 6 – The piece shown in Image 5 but folded (the ‘windmill’ from the paper experiments):
Image 7 – Close up of the ‘windmill’ showing the form created:
Image 8 – Tiny frayed squares formed into a cross:
Image 9 – Close up of mini crosses:
I did take a sequence of photographs where the bit cross slowly vanished by taking away the little crosses but the photos weren’t terribly successful.
I began by using the shape that seem to have carried through several chapters.
Image 1 – Taking out sections of the shape:
Image 2 – Taking slices out of the shape to gradually grow it:
Chapter 11 begins with paper experiments. How can you grow/disintegrate a piece of paper?
Image 1 – Here I’ve tried to grow/disintegrate using different size shape cutting (I think the top left cutting is quite effective):
Image 2 – Cutting and folding a square of paper:
Image 3 – Close up of the top left cutting:
Image 4 – I love the 3D nature of the folding
Image 5 – another close up showing the folding giving a 3D effect:
Image 6 – Ripping out sections:
Image 7 – Ripping, poking and cutting:
Image 8 – Another folding close-up:
Image 9 – Ripped the square into a spiral:
Image 10 – Spiral from the side. Whilst the square has disintegrated another shape has been formed:
I particularly like the ‘windmill’ (images 3 and 4) and I might take that further into my resolved sample.
