My current main textiles project right now is the colour project where I've done a lot of knitting in bright patterns and used really lurid netting. I wanted to try to convey this colour in a film that was abstract. I decided to use a glass jar to distort the image, and sometimes added ink to see how that would affect the image.
I wanted to edit some of these videos to be upside down as I think that would give them a more surreal feel but they are .mov files that I can't edit with the software I have.
I put my samples up against the jar and moved them around with my hands to try to get a surreal vaguely creepy exaggerated movement.
I then tried adding ink to the jar filled with water to see how that would affect it. It didn't go so well as my sample background feel down halfway through and I had to add a different one.
Lastly I tried out putting different coloured netting in the jar, then adding ink. These would work best if tehy were upside down I think.
I like these experiments as I think they could be useful to my work. Screengrabs of these would make interesting subjects to draw for my projects. Since I study textiles one of the things I have been struggling with is how making these films is relevant to my work so seeing that it could be good for research makes it seem more complete and relevant.
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