Author: Cherry Hirsch
Memories of Istanbul – the completed piece
Finally it’s finished! My evaluation of the piece I kept to my inition vision of a hanging inspired bythe plaque I had seen hanging by a doorway in Istanbul. The main difficulty was how to incorporate all the images I wanted to include, but this became easier once I had made horizontal divides rather than...
Assessment piece – towards the light at the end of the tunnel!
I love this screen on a window looking out from the women’s quarters in Topkapi Palace and wondered how I might incorporate it into the piece. I decided that, rather than stitch onto the piece itself, I would stitch onto soluble fabric and wash away. The photo mockup had potential, but was maybe a bit...
Assessment piece – further work
I’ve done a lot more playing around with the tiles. I’ve moved the tiles down by removing the third tile on the far right, which gives a much better positioning. this means the missing moulding paste tiles are no longer correctly placed but I can see where these will go and I will also put...
Chapter 7 Design and composition
I used a motif from one of the tiles in my image bank for the assessment piece. Foam print block I don’t think my first attempt below works very well, the second is better. Distorted images I used a tulip petal to play around with, drawing on to a pair of tights. Expanding a motif...