With my thoughts and ideas in relation to ideas of being free with colour, I proposed to explore through the following mediums: painting, responding to music, textiles, dying materials, sewing, and upcycling bringing previous works from my human relationship with my earlier water project.
I wanted to explore the process of Bookbinding and how that will add to the layers. Visiting an exhibition called ‘Journey of the Mind’ which was a semi-spiritual experience where there were dense texts it made me feel that reading can also be a mindful experience and the passage with the exhibit made me consider how the exhibition was almost like a book on telling us how to live.
The density of the text made it difficult to go through the exhibition but the hard work was worth the effort in what was gained. It gave me the thought that when we are challenged and have to take time it may give more than the fast satisfaction that we expect from the way we communicate today.
It made me think about how religious art is shown today. The title ‘Journey of the Mind’ pulled me in because promoted thoughts of self-journeys rather than a religious subject (although it was based on the Sikh religion). The title of a book can pull you in in the same way that the title of this exhibition did. Utilising the idea of a book, the sublimation print, the textiles, and sewing all spoke to the part of me that is seeking and creating comfort through the use of hands to create, even without the end product in mind.
Using lyrical writing, sampling sounds from Tokyo recordings and animation, I intended to do a multi-layered piece and then take that work into sublimation print. Using the college trip to Tokyo for research and taking photos and my wider observations of the culture. I planned to select images from my trip to Tokyo with a view to taking them into sublimation print.
