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First hand response:

Keep working on the sample as laid out in the sketch book. Experiment with free hand and layering materials to create decaying techniques. Look at the rust dying and manipulations – interpret your own photos with some of these techniques. Distress material by playing around with rust effects and burying the cotton into the ground … do this sooner rather than later to be sure the material is decaying.

Use your printed Textile fabrics to work into them with stitching, burn holes and decay them …. Tear the fabrics, burn, scorch / fray…. These will be lovely experimental pieces combining your fist hand observations into materials

Work to the pages with additional artist’s info – Hussein Chalayan, Alice Fox and others.

Development:

Experiment with distressing materials and fabrics to get as decayed essence to your work. Your book should be filled with experiments that play around with decay. Look at all sorts of different fabrics, staining, Yellow fabric dusters are really good to use as they can really decay into wonderful textiles. Rummage

around the home to see what you can find. The change / stability element is about how something so strong can become so fragile and beautiful as it morphs into delicate

haunting decaying threads…

Think about layout and what you’re adding to your pages.

If you run out of fabrics then improvise, stitch with paper this can add lovely textural qualities too

Combine with emulsions, but emulsions should focus on lettering and words, like an emotional journey or words that associate with the word decay…. We can talk about the links at a later stage.

Look at this artist too

http://www.studio21textileart.co.uk/artists/jacky-russell/