Water Reflection

Looking more at the overall landscape (skyline) of a city, I am interested to see why what means they are reflected. I have started to think of things that reflective, the more obvious is water. Many city’s sit next to water and through research I found photographs of those that reflect into water.

Although the colours in these photographs don’t work or relate to my own colour palette, the concept of the city merging into water – morphing and distorting the reflection does. 

Focusing on the reflection in the water itself, the way the water speckles and waves as a light on the water is an interesting effect, it is a reflection that you can’t tell what it is. It also alike how I created my photographs changes with movement, water movement in this instance. From this I intend to take the highlighted aspect and translate into my practical work (knit).

Reflection Marks

 To capture the shapes and linier quality throughout my drawings I have painted out the wavy, moving line which I have pulled out of parts than run throughout my different interpretations. Using black as a base colour I painted onto acetate, therefore giving me the opportunity to layer the paintings to see what effect it has.

I also added wire to the layers. I made small wire ‘sculptures’ focusing on the shapes in my photographs, using different size wires depending on how faint the line is. 

The harshness of the wire next to the blurred quality of the paint gives an interesting contrast. On reflection I could have used more colours from my colour palette – the peach colours next to the wire and harshness of the black would add a warmer aspect to the layered pictures as a whole. 

Clare Tough

Clare Tough is a knitwear designer. Her collection are interesting because the knit is varied – parts chunky and part fine, her work is almost like a patchwork, with pieces of knit joint together – it looks as if you don’t know how it fits or where pieces place until there put on the body. 

She also uses a lot of colour in her latest collections, something that I am working use more of in my work.

Her work is different and alternative, it isn’t commercial at all, which I feel where my work sits, the fabrics I create aren’t for the high street, the areas her work is placed – put on a catwalk or worn by alternative celebrities or even used on model shoots.

Her work gives me the idea of joining pieces of my knit together – creating a change in direction, relating to my distorted photographs.

Reflection Development

Continuing to use my city photographs, I further explored ways to distort them through reflection. Holding them at an angle away from aluminium paper, they created this image. 

The photographs are also momentary and change with the way you move – I created the photograph myself and could have easily changed the shape and colour balance.

The colour pallete in these photographs is one I intend to take forward to my practical work, the shades of peace, grey and black are interesting balance with highlights from the snippets of blue and silver. My yarn choices will be considered on the basis of the balance between the reflective aspect and the colour balance.