Working my final 3 pieces


1) I found out that synthetic wool does not take colour well. It repelled the dye mostly, I had to really work it in and scrunch it for about an hour to get it to stay and soak any of it. My final piece shows synthetic wool's poor, albeit present ability to absorb moisture. This moisture enabled the fibers to stick together in a messy pile. Many parts held droplets of thick dye which refused to absorb. From this we can see it is definitely not cotton wool, which would have sucked the colour right up.

here is a photo i liked but didn't use because I thought it was distracting and didn't really show the point of the piece.

Aftermath!













2) The synthetic wave... I enjoyed playing with different levels of heat. The fibers were fragile and I had to be very careful and deliberate when using the heat gun. The most heated side is dense and heavy, and gradually towards the other side it becomes more webbed and then airy.

Aesthetically, this is my favorite of the three structures, however it was the hardest to photograph. Here are two attempts that I liked but didn't make the cut.

3) Twisting the synthetic cotton was interesting - the fibers held together really easily when friction was applied to it. Overall it looked a little weak just scrunching the edges around a ball of the wool but I used a similar technique with larger sections to build a more interesting and expressive structure.

This is it below here. The rope like product that was left is strong and dense. I like how you can see the contrasting frayed edges, this gives the structure a bit more flare. When the individual bits I made were stacked on top of each other, this piece also showed the level of transparency in relation to the density of the stuff.

Here are two options I was considering for my final photo