Crit 4

With this crit I got a lot of helpful advice from my classmates and what I presented in class were my canvases I constructed and stretched, with my fiber experiments on them filled with cotton. The class agreed that I should remove them from the structure and try to create different levels of focal points using a different structure such a chicken wire which I acquired that same day.

   

I also tried different materials such as stuffed leggings I have worn to women rights marches this past year and created these "pillow" type fiber experiments that I weaved. I put them up on the wall along with my canvases but after crit I realized I would like them to be apart of the floor due to their color and scale.

 

I plan on making more of the "pillow" like fiber experiments, as well as remove the fiber experiments from my canvases and instead working with chicken wire and covering it with fabric and see how it goes! 

Crit 3

      What I learned from this experimentation was how to construct a frame from wood and make a stretch canvas. I made two stretched canvases and also constructed the frame. I then attached my fiber experiments onto the stretch canvas by sewing them on individually. I plan on making many more fiber experiments and hope to fill up a whole wall with them. I wanted the canvas to be a structure  for the fiber experiments giving them elevation. When I add many many more they will have some higher points and lower points to help the eye wander.

Process

Bought a staple gun and stretched the canvas around the frame and stapled it together they hang perfectly on the wall as well.  I plan on attaching my fiber experiments as well as more onto them.

Process

With my fiber experiments I made with a DIY loom, I constructed a frame out of wood by cutting them and then cutting them into 45 degree angles to create the frame. I then stretched a canvas around the frame and added my fiber experiments as well as more cotton to take away from the square shape frame.

Process

For my next experimentation with materials, I want to create stretch canvases, and make the frame to stretch the canvas out of wood.

I want this to be a structure for my last project and I want to stitch on and attach the circle loom experiments  onto them to expand the piece more. as well as made more loomed experiments.

(pictures coming soon)