some knitting :)

Watching my mam knitting one day I noticed the pattern knitting makes looks like the pattern on a car tire.
I've been trying to incorporate knitting into my project so i tought this was a good way to do that!



<< i wanted to make a design like this (a tire's pattern) out of knitted wool!

I seen this artist painted the wheels of cars in Berlin to see the track marks they'd make on the road when driving. I thought this piece was really interesting!

I started concentrating on the marks tires make from speeding... I thought this would look cool running through paint.

So i got dinky cars, and I must admit had way to much fun doing this :)

I seen this stop sign on the road..and for some reason I really wanted to embroider it! Probly not my most thoughtout of decision =P I tried doing sketches to give me an idea that would make sense, but i couldn't resisted the urge to just embroider it! So for no reason atal here is my embroidered stop sign! (if your wondering why it's half finished, it's because I realised it was abit bonkers and made no sense!)

5th November

So I think the accidents idea was abit too complicated… I think I’ve been jumping from one idea to the next way too quickly! So I decided to go back to the start, back using ‘speed’ as my theme.  I did some mind maps and I realised there’s so much I can do with the speed of cars. I nearly came up with too many ideas!!

So one of the things I looked at was the marks cars make on the road when there speeding. I took one picture and focused
 on it. I liked this picture because when I closed up on the skid mark I found it didn’t look like a skid mark at all.

 I thought the road looked like small circular shapes. I thought of how the wheels that made the marks are also circular shaped. I wanted to do a collage from something which would be a replica of this picture. It could be just me, but I think wheels resemble buttons. I seen before where artists have made collages from buttons and i found it really interesting. So I did this..





Half way through making this collage I thought it looked like a cool fashion accessory. I drew some sketches of different ways the piece could be used as an accessory.

trying a 3D..

I like sculpture and I wanted to do a 3D.. I thought about how leaving a plug turned on in a socket can cause fires.. I didnt just want to sculpt a simple plug in a socket though... I thounght about how the plug and socket would melt from the fire it caused. I thought trying to sculpt this would be really interesting. I decided I'd paint the sculpture using colours that represent fire!