TEXTILE ART PROJECT_02
INSTALLATION / BFA TEXTILES / 2023 / APPROX. 3.5 × 5 × 2.5 FT
Emotional Mines
MX DYE / WATERCOLOR ON FABRIC / MACRAMÉ NETTING / CROSS-STITCH
An installation of suspended soft forms resembling underwater sea mines — the wreckage of grief and loss, in hand-dyed canvas and knotted netting.
THE WORK
Soft forms resembling underwater sea mines, suspended as an installation — grief and loss given a body in textile.
The fabric had to take dye and paint, hold color depth and survive structural manipulation, so material choice came before form.
01 / COLOR / DYE DEVELOPMENT
An MX dye recipe of base and over-dye baths tones the canvas and clothesline into one cohesive flesh palette.
02 / DYE BATH
03 / KNOTTING TESTS
Knotting techniques were tested to arrive at the netted bags that suspend each spiked form.
04 / CONSTRUCTION
The fabric needed to support painting, color depth and structural manipulation, so each spiked form was built and stuffed before any surface work.
05 / SURFACE / WATERCOLOR
The forms are layered with watercolor for anatomical depth, with cross-stitch embroidery as a visual metaphor for scarring.
06 / INSTALLATION
