'A Wondering Life'

Pencil on tracing paper and sewn together with thread. These are around 42 days of journeys ive been on, in a day in Bath (each sheet = 1 day). Layered up to reveal over time when ive been. Hung by window so that light shines through them, highlighting the routes taken.

get lost in memory

Monoprints. Journey from memory. Positive and negative.

no particular place to go

Streets cut out from a Google map of Bath, arranged in location and scanned in to be altered in photoshop. Printed on three sheets of acetate and layered up to create confusion of whereabouts. Later used to create a screen print.

We made bunting for our exhibition whilst sat on my trampoline :)

Bunting: we had screen printed our poster image on to plain squares and had striped squares INBETWEEN - tied with brown garden string.

BETWEEN THE LINES EXHIBITION BLOG

Here is the blog from the exhibition that i did in April called Between the Lines at Walcot Chapel in Bath.
http://betweenlines2011.blogspot.com/
It shows the making of the exhibition and fundraising as well as the curating and private view night :)

Jeff Woodbury

I stumbled across the artist Jeff Woodbury whilst searching the hand drawn map accociation website. I loved his dissected maps work and the description for it is the following:

'I have always had maps around. I grew up in a military family and my father, among other things, made maps. Even after I left home I traveled, and maps offer both plans and dreams. The concept of the map is one of humanity’s earliest and greatest inventions - and one of our densest ways of storing and managing information.

I began dissecting maps in 1998. Tracing routes with a knife is similar to driving down a highway - most of what you’re left with is the road itself and a narrow band of land on either side. By cutting away everything but the roads, a map ceases to be a 2-dimensional representation of reality and becomes an actual 3-dimensional thing.

Maps are generally cheap, and their value is predicated on their usefulness. When they become outdated we throw them away. By dissecting them, their use-value is destroyed by the loss of their function. But the use-value is replaced with aesthetic value, and with it a commensurate extension of the object’s lifespan.

Hung floating in front of a wall, wafting in the breeze, they’re reminiscent of clothes hung out to dry. Clothes that are too old and torn to be worn, but too cherished and full of memories to discard.'

                            

sleep/expired state
  1999 

 Two dissected maps
    folded and tangled

Dissected Map (folded)

 

His website is: http://www.jeffwoodbury.com/index.html if you want to look at more work, and there are many beautiful works at: http://www.handmaps.org/index.php.

7 Days

I am currently recording the routes that i take in a day, within Bath.
Its facinating to see the different levels of movement and places revisited.
I'd like to make a month of these and then layer them up, prehaps with light shining through them, and also create a flat work showing 'movement in a month', revealing areas explored.

Here are '7 Days' worth, Monday - Saturday, then i scanned in.

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Roads with no Roads

For my art project i am looking into Bath where i live and looking at mapping, memory and journeys. Here is a routeless map of Bath with just the titles of the roads telling you where places are. I made this from cutting out the street names from google maps and arranging them where they are situated. I wonder if someone would be able to find where they need to go using this map?

I then scanned in the work and played around with the colour in photoshop.

Here is what the opposite of the above looks like. Roads but no names. I wonder if this would be harder to navigate with?

I will be creating a screen print of the road names so then i can work with it at a larger scale. x

DRAW ME!

Here is just a few photos I took of some flowers that i will draw.
For my textiles project i'm looking into floral wallpapers, mostly vintage styles.
I plan on buying a bunch of flowers, and then drawing from them, as theres not much flowers around at this time of year! I will then scan them in and create patterns in photoshop, from which i'll create a silk screen. More images to come!