Something Unwanted

The beginning of a something unwanted.

A bit further along...

Hello lovely people.

Here's an in-progress look at a project that I am doing for Studio Drawing.  I've been trying to mix weaving with drawing, and it has been a challenge.  With limited ideas and increasing stress, anxiety, and ultimately, more migraines, I kind of lost it.  One of my classmate's during our in-progress drawing critique advised me to tear everything up and see what happened.  It was the one piece of advice that I had dismissed entirely, and the one piece of advice that I had actually followed.  I tore everything up and started all over.  I gathered every possible thing that I had that was unwanted: scraps of material, old embroidery floss, yarn, pages from my sketch books, and old photo prints that weren't perfect.  I then drew all over the surfaces I could, tore them up, and wove and stitched them back into this piece, using all of my unwanted emotion to push me forward.  It's a very new way of creating art for me, and its ugliness is strange.  As a rug weaver, I try to make something ordinary and domestic into something extraordinary and beautiful.  This way of thinking is implied in every other medium I use: creating something absolutely beautiful to engage the viewer with positive emotion.  I feel like all of the bad and ugly things in the world is what many focus on, and I try to bring back attention to the beautiful things that remain.  When I began this piece, I tossed out any notion of beauty, and focused on the materials individually as well as my frustration and anger toward school and my personal health.  The more I stitch and weave into the piece, the more I see a reflection of myself.  I imagine that if one were able to see their soul, this is what mine would look like: something imperfect and ugly to the common viewer but full of good intent and beauty to those who look a bit harder.

And with that my friends, I bid you all ado.  As always, thanks for reading and have yourselves a pleasant day.

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