I will be sharing progress with Thornhill Art Group and on the website over the coming months. I look forward to seeing work by a number of people, following the visit to the Microscopy Suite at Portsmouth University in April 2013. Do contact me if you would like to find out more about this work. ~Jacqui L
Over the coming weeks I will be adding other words and photos to give emphasis to different life stages in the concertina book. I see this ‘blue print’ as my own reference chart. I also will be continuing to card and to spin wool in preparation for a larger weaving. This weaving will be formed of Warp yarns which will emerge from transparent acrylic tubes – rather like scientific samples – and then be woven together to form a bigger piece. These tubes have been purchased from the art supplier Seawhite alongside a larger plastic tube in which they and the finished larger weaving will be kept.
I will be sharing progress with Thornhill Art Group and on the website over the coming months. I look forward to seeing work by a number of people, following the visit to the Microscopy Suite at Portsmouth University in April 2013. Do contact me if you would like to find out more about this work. ~Jacqui L
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I am developing some ideas through weaving and sketching which I hope will lead to some finished pieces later in the year. Broadly I am pondering how the things that are important to us, hold us and enable us to be the people we are called to be. Using weaving and sketch books I hope to explore these concepts in respect of this exciting project reflecting the microworld. I am currently interested in the WARP threads in a weaving - the ones which are stretched across the loom or frame top to bottom to hold the WEFT threads - and thinking about them in terms of the things which hold us in life as individuals. In my case these are things like - family, home, God, creativity as examples. Abraham Maslow (1954) uses a helpful model which I reproduce here from http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html. I hope to refer to this hierarchy in my creative work. The original hierarchy of needs five-stage model includes:
1. Biological and Physiological needs - air, food, drink, shelter, warmth, sex, sleep. 2. Safety needs - protection from elements, security, order, law, limits, stability. 3. Belongingness and Love needs - work group, family, affection, relationships. 4. Esteem needs - self-esteem, achievement, mastery, independence, status, dominance, prestige, managerial responsibility. 5. Self-Actualization needs - realizing personal potential, self-fulfillment, seeking personal growth and peak experiences. ~Jacqui L |