Group Meeting

Today we met up in the art cafe again to discuss the outcome of our tutorial with Sarah last friday. We all agreed that the knitted outcome needed to be a lot bigger than we had first imagined to make more of an impact in the film. We also discussed different methods of making a mound of knitting this big. I took along some of my samples of arm knitting just using woolen yarn and the rest of the group really liked the 'net' effect that it created. Shannon and Laura had also done finger knitting which created long chunky tubes of knitting that we thought would look really good draped over and woven into the arm knitting. Laura had also experimented with knitting strips of bin bags and then ironing them to fuse the knitted structure into a sculptural sheet. We all thought this was really effective, and it is a quick way of getting a lot of volume and contrasting textures into our knitted piece. We are going to carry on developing these techniques using different materials such as duck tape, bin bags and jersey.

The other point we discussed in the meeting was the narrative to go behind the story. We all liked the idea of the knit representing a persons youth, and then as this is unravelled and taken away from them they start to loose control and try desperately to hold on. Today however we introduced the idea of the model who is wearing the knitting trying to patch up and repair the decaying knit with brightly coloured contrasting pieces, much like women use plastic surgery to mask their ageing bodies. However in the end even this cannot stop the inevitable process of ageing and everything will return back to its original state one day.

This is the narrative that will now accompany our film written up by Shannon...

Ageing is inevitable in life but it has become a fear for many woman in the 21st Century. Adverts for creams, hair dyes and treatments are constantly on television and plastic surgery has become a multi million pound industry. This piece represents a woman unable to deal with her youth disappearing from her and is trying to ‘patch up’ what she has left. In the end we are all going to age whether we choose to do it gracefully or not is our decision