Making with Meaning - Awake in the middle of the night

I had a very busy, but not particularly successful day in the studio.  Went to bed exhausted, and have now woken in the middle of the night, with an overactive mind!

We started by unseen drawings on a large sheet of paper, both sides.

Then folded into a Japanese book to isolate and create sections.

Then cut some stencils and worked on textured paper.

None of which really came together.

Then I recut more stencils and screenprinted on pre-washed calico, using Ford's ultramarine blue.  Also did textured mono print on glass and overprinted a couple of the stencils.  Not greatly successful.

I've spent time crumpling brown paper, to make it like a soft leather.  Not sure what to do with it.

Now I'm awake in the middle of the night, fretting about it.   I keep thinking about the shapes of the seats.  Working on fabric does not seem to be working for me.  Maybe I need to get back to working on paper.  I'm thinking about all the words I've found about Ford's behaviour with the job evaluation exercise.  They were not transparent.  They kept the job evaluation data concealed.  The Scamp Inquiry found Ford's behaviour with the machinists to be "symptomatic of the company's more general discrimination against women".

Maybe:
Use lines of writing to draw the machining on seat covers.
Use quotes.  Rosie Boland
"We are skilled workers ... Ready for another fight, but only for C grade - not for equal pay"
"Women's speed and dexterity was unequalled in the company and had been significantly undervalued"
B Grade unskilled; C grade, skilled.
Job evaluations not published
Full disclosure gets full acceptance
Non disclosure gets non acceptance


Transparency/opaqueness
Repetition
Stick with Ford blue colour

How to get the Machinists anger into the work?

I've now been awake 3 hours ... but I think I know what I want to do in the morning.  I'm not interested in their hand tools.  I'm interested in the car seats.  And the quotes

A concertina sketchbook, with one of the quotes, right the way along the book.  Then overprinted with a linocut car seat pattern.