Flux (definition: continuous change)
With further exploration for the south of London,
I choose 'Camberwell' as the place to start my project,
where I live for a year. There are 5 words for me to describe Camberwell :
1. Colourful
2. Old
3. Dirty
4. Poor
5. Wild
Put these words together, it gives me a new picture of Camberwell.
By observing the changes in the architectural photos of Camberwell from the past, the change from black and white to color is the interpretation of flux in the photos
I also used Lino printing and hand knitting to explore the feeling of linear for the buildings' structure.
After I went to the library and found out a book related to architecture，I was attracted by the line of the building's silhouette and the structure. The projects I used to do tend to be rich in colors and textures, and I started thinking about whether I could do a simple project and focus on linearity.
Amanda McCavour's work also inspired me a lot, I started to use the mess line to build a structure for the buildings in Camberwell. I used a sewing machine to do it all and I also collected all of my face warps in my daily life, these little pieces fabric became my best samples.
As times have changed, black and white photos have become colour. By looking at modern Camberwell's architecture, I found that the overall building colour is greyish, but in the large grey stone buildings, the vitality of Camberwell is reflected in the occasional stores which are colourful, like some cafes.
Then I started to think about what material can show the grey tone feeling. After I attended the experimental workshop exploring the plaster casting process, I found that plaster is the most suitable material. For one reason, plaster is the traditional material for building. And the second reason is when I mixed bright colour with plaster together, I can see that grey tone colour happened. This process is similar to the process I made my colour palette.
According to the grey tone colour of the buildings, I made a colour palette. Mixing with bright colour and grey, the grey tone colour shows the modern Camberwell worlds.
In order to show the large area of grey tone in Camberwell, with a small number of colourful shops, I used a large area of plaster as a base and decorated it with a small amount of colourful knitting and materials.
For the final works, I combined the face warps with linear buildings pattern and the plaster together. There are two reasons why I want to use face warps as base fabrics to sew the building structures. One is because, from the 'Too much' project, I started to focus on sustainable materials, so I will collect everything in my daily life could be used to do textile design. Another reason is, I found that when the face warps get wet, it will become invisible. In this case, I guessed if the wet face warps are put into the plaster water that has not solidified when the plaster is solidified, only the sewing thread can be displayed on the plaster as a pattern.