on the go

one of my little grand-daughter's favourite things to get hold of on the days she was in my charge was my cell phone and every so often she would grab it and set off about the room rapidly tapping the screen with her pointer finger

one day she managed to open the camera and through her tapping took this picture of the blinds with the floor and bottom edge of the loveseat

the image is fractured, most likely because she was moving at a rapid pace, trying to get away from me retrieving my phone

when it came up in my photos application i thought it looked rather interesting so decided to play around with some photo editing to see what I could see

haven't done anything else with it as yet though i've been toying around with a few ideas - it has certainly sparked an interest in abstraction of interiors so i was delighted on arriving home to find a good friend had gifted me with a beautiful photo book for my birthday

"BLACKWELL

WITHIN

a photographic

evocation"

by

Graham Murrell

words by Sarah Hall

small but packed with beautiful images that "balance the geometry and detail with the play of light and shade, reflection, texture, to create a counterpoise between the solid reality of the house itself and the evanescence of the passing moment within it's spaces", it's a photographic essay of captivating images of the interior of a beautiful estate in the lake district of the uk

on the go again, this time to Edmonton for a week to visit our son, i packed a few drawing materials and at the last minute grabbed this book and a very few scraps of fabric and threads that were laying on my worktable

in the spare moments of the last few days I have begun four small textile-based pieces drawing from some of the compositional elements in a few of the photos

not to make exact replicas

rather, a start point for simple geometric pieces that along with added stitches will hopefully create works that will have a sense of the images, both in their geometry and atmosphere

not sure i can pull off the latter but for now i've made a start at the former

the fabric choices aren't necessarily the best but i had less than twenty fabrics to choose from so making do was the only option

trying to capture a sense of the strongest elements though not through direct representation

simplicity at it's best here...

this last one is the only one i'm not sure about - it's very literal but i'll keep on with it just the same as these are to be a set and perhaps this one will have a duty only to complement the others

apologies for all the wrinkles but alas, no iron

we head home tomorrow where all will get a thorough pressing and then on with the stitching aspect

when i travel it's difficult to get stuck in to any one thing but in odd moments here and there this has been a joy to take up and work on

and as ever, it's feeding new ways of looking, of thinking and of working