Welcome to BA Art & Design. 3 day Bournville Task

“A small print on a mailbox becomes something really precious when you remove all the noise around it from it’s setting” (Merel Karhof, project two).  Explore familiar or alien surroundings by isolating, documenting and displaying anything you think will create a new awareness of the landscape."

From exploring and photographing Bournville I began to notice all the patterns within the iron work - the gates, the windows, the weathervane, the doors. All of which contribute to the picturesque village, but some how get lost or hidden behind the bigger picture.  

Down Maple road, an old paper lantern stumbled down the street.  I attached some of my ideas to the colours and the floating origin that this lantern represented.

I simplified the patterns found around the iron work in Bournville to make stencils - keeping both the positive and negative designs - linking, extending, overlapping to make interesting and new designs.

To recreate the faded colours from the lantern, I used a plain cotton and flamingo pink dye to make a similar ombre effect.  


I then penciled on the new pattern designs onto the fabric.  


By displaying it above an open window I was hoping the fabric would float in the breeze, linking it back to the lantern found on Maple road.