{"id":7588,"date":"2022-08-22T11:16:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=7588"},"modified":"2022-08-22T11:16:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:16:24","slug":"primal-patterns-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=7588","title":{"rendered":"Primal Patterns, 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a recent post, https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=7560<\/a>, I wrote of my interest in the basic symbols, among them + x and o, that humans anywhere on every continent come up with when mark making on any surface, regardless of cultural background, age and level of education. Here I’ve doodled a cross over a circular shape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I sketched this idea with a couple of quick notes just to mentally keep hold of it until I had time to play with it, knowing that (1) I wanted to audition sheer fabrics, the half cut word ‘transparency’ reminding me to explore overlapping sheers to create pattern shapes (2) I noted the bronze nylon organza which I used bit in the previous work, of which I still have plenty (3) ?white? referring to potential background fabric, but no, not this time anyway. (4) the words ‘repeat pattern’ and ‘blocks’ signal I was thinking about some kind of grid layout. <\/p>\n\n\n

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But grids are not necessarily rigidly linear and square; they can wobble, be intermittent, and there are different types and shapes. And different sizes of grid can appear on the same piece of work. <\/p>\n\n\n

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There’s a lot to think about just there, and to help me clarify my plans for this work I’ll be looking a bit closer this afternoon at the numerous images on my Pinterest ‘grids’ board<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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The fabrics are the same pale grey, BUT the centre piece was tea dyed, since I decided I’d prefer a putty coloured fabric rather than grey to go against the beige-off white wall where it might go when it’s done.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Taking just a few minutes each, these small (4cm-7cm) samples were done over a couple of days recently. What they tell me is that I need to follow on with this idea, and that the background probably needs to be stitched and quilted with metallic threads. I do love a bit, or a lot, of glitter! Again, going for the shimmer effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I googled “cross shape imposed over circle”<\/a> and found lots of varied images ranging from religious symbols to those of political and social movements. One of my sisters commented “Bandaids?”<\/strong> when she saw the first of these, and that offers a possible line of thought…. also they suggest some kind of road or rail crossing signs<\/strong>, or maybe whirling helicopter or drone blades<\/strong>! As I began writing this, I was listening to one of the leading scientists on the Webb telescope project that recently began sending fabulous photos from Outer Space, and when I next looked at it I was reminded of those satellites<\/strong> we see pictures of that have ‘arms’ <\/a> I’m not blessed with engineering or scientific mind, and don’t know my way around a diagram of one of those things, so this is just a general impression.<\/p>\n\n\n

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More cross-over-circle shapes, ~7-8cm across. I didn’t stitch them because I know by now how they’ll look!<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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