Hand processes

Experimenting with stitch techniques...

Thinking about layers, size and space...

Little findings...

I have been researching about Annette Messager a little bit more, and I have found out some interesting things, particulary in a Guardian article wrote a few years ago...

'Puts sparrows in bonnets and sabotages soft toys'

'Sorry little bundles of feathers and bones and wind-up clock motors'

'Messager's work can be obvious as well as secretive and strange'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/mar/05/annette-messager-hayward

Also, I have been making use of the library, having a little read in my favourite magazine 'Embroidery'.

There was a piece about the textile artist Rosie James, who has created a lovely tapestry, which is on display in Ordsall Hall, Salford, very close to where I will soon be living... worth a visit I think!

Quite pretty.

Dead dog.

This is my dog, more of a ghost dog.

The outcome is from an idea about the 'Crufts' competition itself, where dogs are often inbred and suffer health conditions and mutations, so that some breeds are hardly recognisable...

Little things...

Bon Idee(s)

Rebecca Horn et Annette Messager

Some images of the artists works that I quite liked, possibly animal themed, quite like the sculptural aspect of them...