I was watching the interview on Fibre Arts Take Two with Dorothy Caldwell and Claire Benn, look on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbSWEfUADOE&t=4015s
... and Claire mentioned her explorations being a "call and response" ... meaning that she will have an idea and respond to it with an exploration to see where it takes her. I think we do this as a "what if" ...
In the interview Dorothy had a grouping of tied pages that reminded me of small books and since I'm in the midst of teaching my Cloth to Codex Online Workshop which focuses on books and mark making I thought of tearing up a large sheet of marked paper into pages....
The paper started as an exercise in .... chasing shadows with India ink. It sat in my cupboard for a few months ....
then I marked the back of the paper ....
and tore it up into rectangles ... and then just laid out the pieces in a random order. First one side ...
and then the other side ....
and arranged them again....
I like how they looked in a stack ...
and took some of the photos into my iPad app and drew over top ...
and then took the photo away ...
....so that's it for now! What's next? Crop and edit? Multi-coloured strips? Not sure but this is my "call and response"
What is yours?
