I've finished off the very un-inspirational summer project of Household Geometrics. Having scoured the house looking for squares, circles, etc etc. Its been very difficult to get enthused by such a dull subject, sketching taps and plug holes and kitchen utensils! I found myself homing in on circles, spheres and rounds once again, this time in particular inspired by the bathroom shower head, loads of repeating patterns of circles within circles; and secondly by an installation on the South Bank of kitchen sieves by the Korean artist Choi Jeong Hwa. The sieves in particular got me looking at stacked semi circles and repeating piles of half circle shapes. Trying to meet one of the tutors recommendations I've also tried to get messy by stencilling and stamping (made at home from parcel packaging foam stuff) these patterns and shapes on paper and fabrics, as well as more trying Shibori. I've also been looking at fabric construction ideas and this time playing around with Suffolk Puffs (or YoYos) having found a little plastic 'YoYo maker' tool to make them that gets a great result every time. I've used the puffs to create masses of puffs overlapping, like the sieve installation taking an individual piece any by repeating that shape to create a new patterns and shapes.
