Roger Ballen- Emma Senior

I recently visited Manchester Art Gallery where I saw some really interesting work by Roger Ballen, a photographer who just works in black and white. Although this wasn't appropriate for my project, I thought his work was really powerful as some of it I found quite disturbing as he likes to play with the differences between reality and fantasy. I also liked that some of his photographs felt like a drawing because of the smooth textures, and his juxtapositions between key elements, playing with your eyes.

Peter Pilotto

Another contextual reference that expresses the same digital but false textile/tactile qualities.

Mary Katranzou

My inspiration for the idea of presenting textile processes in a digital format came from the most recent collection of one of my favourite designers, Mary Katranzou.  I also feel that the colour palette ties in well with that of my photographs of the relfections of the buildings.  This is something i am going to take and develop and experiement with further.

Digital knit

I have begun to think about the idea of presenting traditional textile materials in a digital format.  The idea of creating a print to represent a process ie knit or weave.  This is something i have started to experiement with, using knit samples.  I photocopied them on accetate and tracing paper.  I think the results are interesting as they represent something that usually has a tactile quality.

Ink lines

I have begun extracting some qualities from my photographs through drawings.  Here i have used ink applied with a piece of willow on paper.

Patterns in drawing- Emma Senior

After creating patterns on windows I thought it would be a good idea to introduce into my drawing, so I made patterns using masking tape onto paper which I then drew over. I thought this worked really effectively as it gave my drawing a 3D feel. Like my window pieces I decided to take parts of the pattern away from my drawing to see how it would alter my drawing. I liked the effect as it left lines where I had drawn on top of the masking tape.

Before and after

Experimenting with light- Emma Senior

After going to the Cube Gallery and deciding that I wanted to try and work with light behind my pieces, I have now started to look at other artists that have introduced light into their work. One is Claudia Caviezel who works with pattern.  http://www.caviezel.cc/ I really liked her work with masking tape which she stuck onto windows. I then decided that I wanted a go at this myself which I found really effective. One my patterns were finished I decided to cut shapes out of the patterns to let more light in and looked really effective as what was left was just strips and shapes of masking tape with no over laying which created darker shadows.