Evaluation

For my final major project, I wanted to communicate the idea of life being chaotic and
uncontrollable all of the time via the destruction of portraits to represent the tole it can take on
you and the anxiety of everyday life. This surfaced because of my initial idea which was to look
at music in connection to human emotion- this quickly moved towards the idea of anxiety/
mental health and everyday life. Using these themes and overall message allowed me to
combine both photography and textiles which I have a massive interest in.

RANKIN, Alma Haser, Jose Romussi and Chris Dorosz were extremely influential for me in this
project because of their processes, the themes in their work and the way they present
outcomes. Haser ended up becoming really important in my work as the idea of 3D patchwork
for my final piece stemmed from looking at her work and the use of origami as well as this Chris
Dorosz had a massive impact on my final piece in terms of the presentation.

Throughout the project my view of the message and themes has become more refined and
more thought out, for example, at the start I didn’t feel very confident in what I was doing but
as I went along and the themes started to show up in my own life things became a little clearer
and I could show this through different processes like stitching which by the end I had made
much more use out of by using techniques like free-foot machine embroidery to represent the
chaos through the free flowing uncontrollable movement that comes with this.

For all of the processes I did in this project I based them off whether the technique was very
organic and unpredictable like Chemigrams and the 7-day process drawings that I did in
response to Auerbach to represent the themes which changed my project dramatically. These
processes were inspired mostly by artists and suggestions from tutors- most of the processes
being very experimental.

I think that the most successful aspect of my work was the screen-printing experiments that I
did as I got a lot out of them and I think all the different samples really helped me to
communicate what the message of my work and it gave me the chance to try as many
techniques as possible in a short amount of time in preparation for deciding what to do for a
final outcome. Alternatively, one area of my work that I think I could’ve improved was my
digital work as going into the project I was hoping to do more of it but ended up doing very
little as most of my work was done in textiles using fabrics or through screen-printing.

Overall, I think that my final outcome represents my message well because of the chaotic
composition of the threads and 3D patchworks floating in the frame representing that feeling of
anxiety and the unpredictability of life. As well as this at the end of the project I decided to use
dome of my photographs I took with a red light and this added a sense of anxiety because of
the colour which for me is a colour I represent with the unknown and the themes of the project
so with that In mind I am happy with the outcome and the way that it has been composed to
really explore the ideas I’ve had during this project.