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Laura Kent | Level Four and Five Textiles in Practice | Manchester School of Art

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Monday, 28 October 2013

Embroidery Tutorial/ Fabien Oefner

We have just finished this week's tutorial with Fiona, and once again there was only myself and Chloe there to talk about our work, which was rather disappointing as it would be nice to be able to see, and be influenced by other people's work, but never mind.

Work-wise, I have been looking at a few new artists, as a way to build up my Influences file. Photographer and fine artist, Fabian Oefner, looks at 'The Gateway to the Invisible'- using sound waves and vibrations as his prime source of art influence. Using the vibrations of music, he captures very beautiful creations on camera. The pieces, I think, are made using some sort of paint- however on the photographs they remind me of  my french knotting samples. http://fabianoefner.com


my french knotting sample, layers of the music

As there was only the two of us, we had more of an informal talk- speaking about our general thoughts about the unit and how we are coping. An issue that was mentioned by the both of us was time-management. Yes, there are only a certain number of hours in the day, but what do we actually do in those hours? A lot of the time, it seems, is spent doing a thousand and one other jobs, before getting down to artwork- which is shocking. Some weeks I can be sitting in Monday morning tutorial, and before I know it, it is already Sunday evening and I will have produced no new work to show. This is definitely a problem- Chloe and I picked up that it was down to coming to degree level straight from a structured a-level setting. 

Fiona gave some really great advice, and has offered to set us tasks every week as a way to keep to a time-plan, and to also print off weekly timetables in order to manage our social/ working times. I now feel much more positive about the whole course, and feel that this is the turning point in my working ethic.