A Resting Place

Helen Carnac says creative work reaches a resting place, when it is not finished, but needs to pause before the next development is ready.  My sampler has rested.  I am now ready to move on.

I swam 2250m this morning and my thinking drew some conclusions:

I need to add an outline of the UK to the top of the sampler. maybe with a dotted line and aircraft on the way to Australia.

I like the idea of two silhouettes of people (one being me, and the other representing various individuals I have supported) with one-liners around them, describing what has happened.  I shall photocopy, in various sizes, my two person silhouettes,  and try them out for size and position on the rubbings I made of the sampler.

I chewed over what colour to use.  Plenty of dithering here, then I realised I had used muddy purples and greens for the border, so a selection of purples and greens on a white ground, would be the colours of the suffragettes.  I may add a bit of yellow.  I am still contemplating whether to leave the image of Australia as an outline, or to fill in with colour as in the original sketchbook.  This happened to be a golden yellow and green wash, as these are the colours of the Australian national sports teams.  Not sure yet.

I mulled over the idea of the open hand (from Jane) and decided I needed to draw an active hand, possibly stitching.  Then copy, in various sizes and try for size and position on the rubbing.  Also I like the idea of a pair of scissors (or a scalpel), with the words 'a cutting remark'.

Once I have decided on the size of the imagery, I will try it out on my experimental sampler.   (This will be submitted as well for assessment).