Monday, June 17, 2013

Thin as Paper

The idea that thin-ness can be functional in any media is a bit trippy. To maintain a certain amount of strength required to hold stuff together, to produce energy, to be recognized and still allow a certain amount of light and translucence to be a quality is a real sneaker upper.

Weaving fabric loosely allows light and a special fragility that is unique to fibers. Non-directional fibers can accomplish this with fusion and adhesives. Capturing threads in a "sandwich" of structure creates the solid that defines "it".

My theme for the next few days.. produce a textile that is thin as paper. And maybe even use paper. And thread.

Yep. this should be fun. It's a test! This may be more line and texture than color. Like suminigashi with thread and stitches.