Ideas and Concepts in Art & Design Unit 3

Creative Thinking Through The Development of a 3D Book Construction as Applied to a Woodland Journey.

Something Deep about Nature

Here I have taken a part of nature and modernised it. I have destroyed it with thread. I have tried to use industry to strengthen nature to show that it just doesn’t work. I have used freestyle machine embroidery all over it. Adding a button and a stick. And finally a tag to show how you can’t put a label on nature. Tame it or change it without consequences’.

The first thing the eye is drawn to is the green of the leaves and the stem of the berry. The berry then blends into the brown paper tag because the thread I used to sew the berry is a similar brown to the small parcel tag it is sewn on to. The brown of the tag is much richer and darker, it separates the small parcel tag from the bigger one behind it which I made out of cardboard it frames the embroidery and allows it to stand out more. The thin line of blue represents the sky and complements the green. To me this shows that in order for something to look beautiful it has to be separated from everything else.

This pieces draws the eye straight to the twig because it is the only part of the piece that isn't a solid round shape and that isn't covered in wax. The eye then goes around all the buttons and follows them up the to string at the top of the tag then down to the writing on the tracing paper below the tag. This explains that natural and made made together can be beautiful.

The first part of this piece you see is the weeds sticking up out the top of the tea bag. As this is the darkest dark against the lightest light (chiaroscuro). Then you follow the weeds down back into the tea bag and see the word 'alone' written on a piece of tracing paper in the tea bag. Then your eyes follows up the weeds again and up the string and see's the tag attached to it that is used for pulling the tea bag out of the cup. I turned the tag over so you couldn't see the black writing on it as to not distract from the tea bag and keeping the piece more minimalist. Using only dull colours to make the weeds, breaking out of the tea bag, stand out. I feel the weeds breaking out of the tea bag shows the loneliness that was intended in this piece as you can see by the word 'alone'. It shows that when something stands taller than everything else, when something is that little bit darker or brighter, it will always be noticed first.

   

The eye is first drawn to the green berry I freestyle machine embroidered onto bubble wrap. This is because it is such a stronger and different colour to the neutral colours mixes of browns and beiges on the rest of the piece. This allows the the green to stand out above all else. The eye then follows the hessian to the words 'bleak' and 'broken'. This piece,to me, represents how nature can be broken and bleak but there is always something bright and beautiful. 

The eye is first drawn to black and white negative scan that i ripped a bit out and put in the tea bag. Then the eye is drawn to the writing on the tracing paper that says 'natural'. I think this piece represents minimalism in nature. How relaxing and calm nature can be, and how you have to look hard to see the beauty.