can you see now why my eyes are sore?

Presentation ideas

I just bought the jewellery box on trademe, unsure if i will use it but i want to try out a few of the ideas that have been buzzing around in my head. The table above is a PRIME! it transforms into a sewing machine desk thing which is highly appropriate, dont know how much it will sell for but it would be nice to have my work on. I want my display to be wooden, yellowy, comfy looking yet antiquey... get me? Imagine my desk when i'm 80 years old and that is what my exhibition will look like, a personal work space that has a museum feel because its all fragile and old but still looks inviting to touch and personal. yeah. I'm going to study english next year.


Cool little magnifying glass^^ i am enjoying the little edward clippy hands on either side of it which will be prime for holding on to little hairy things. yaaaaayges ago i considered making lots of little objects and displaying them in a 'shadow box' like the one above. Granny Cush has one with all sorts of things in it like porcelain figurines, plastic and tin toys, mercury in a little bottle (my favourite), china shoes, lots of little oddities. I think her little shelves were formerly used to house printing blocks?? anyway they're way cooler than that one^

I have been trawling the internet trying to find magnifying glasses and lenses to present my works underneath. I'm yet to even really think about the lighting which will be a bitch.
I've found a lot of things that i think would suit my works for presenting them in or on top of, little wooden jewellery boxes, old library card catalogues, desks, etc. I really want a sort of museum aesthetic, but not so removed from the audience. The above video is a nice way of viewing the crafted object, travelling through the hair tunnel to get to it. I want the audience to get that feeling of abjection and the messy hair tunnel does this, leading to the fascinating obsessive object that is the crafted hair. The microscopic view moving around and through the object is very visceral, the circular framing of the tunnel is like Mona Hatoum's 'corps etranger', somehow more bodily... like wee hole. holey hole hole.

lace

On the left we have the lace as it looks when i removed it from the pricking. I was feeling a little disheatened then Sae hae pulled the threads apart and wa-la there was the pattern!! See what a difference things like thread size and tension make. i hate lace

My thread is too thin, this problem would be easy to fix, just buy thicker thread. The problem is that the hair i will be using is less than a tenth of the thickness of the current thread. hmm.... maybe the style of lace is not the way to go, i think something more abstract will have to do. The spangles are proving to be annoying with the thinner thread, I might have to cut them all off!

my lace set up

As you can see its not that easy to learn how to make lace from the $2.50 book you scored on trademe. I was about ready to throw this against the wall but patience and perseverance paid off.
Pins, learning my first stitch. Is it even called a stitch?!?! Experimenting with where the pins are positioned in the pricking, what a heart rate getting it right!
Pillow made with styrofoam, cardboard, staples, polar fleece circles and blue material which is fantastic for making lace with white thread but a nightmare for hair. woohoo!

Lace pillow

so i should have made this a month ago... tried making one with wadded up blankets and carboard and a staple gun... staples fell out, board bent, fabric wasn't hard enough. I got told off for doing things that were unrelated to what was going in my final exhibition and now when i try to do something fast and cheap it lies there like the half dead rat in the living room, not working, hating life. That poor little rat i wish i hadn't let it be poisoned I felt so bad seeing it too exhausted to move being tormented by Mitsy.
Back to the lace pillow, I made one from styrofoam that will last me at least until i make my first piece of lace, I also bought an old pillow so that when i make a proper lace pillow I can stuff it with panmure op shop stuffings. yum. I put down my name to volunteer there during the week. I don't know why I did this as I have far too much on my plate already. hmmm.

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hair woven in to an existing tatted piece of lace. Looks like a dirty smear, a web... boring.
Finished button! click to see the detail.