Year Book

2002 is the year that I was assigned to explore as part of our creative sketchbooks unit. I used use the text, images and numbers from my mother’s diary of that year to create my own scroll. To challenge the idea of what a book is I used fabric with stitching and presented it in a form reminiscent of an early hand written scroll.

To incorporate the personal element of my mother’s diary I replicated her handwriting, doodles, arrows and appointment numbers in hand stitch, and to attach the photocopied images I used a thin film of sticky plastic to keep them secure and retain their durability. As my mum likes things to look aesthetically pleasing, the arrangement of the fragmented diary upon the scarf, choice of colour and images was very important.

           

Tilleke Schwarz is the main textile artist that inspired my yearbook scroll. She creates textile artworks using hand embroidery which she describes as visual poetry. Each piece is like a spill of thoughts stitched on to the linen. All of the stitched doodles, images, marks and text tell a story, but us as the viewer have to piece together the different elements to form our own conclusions and narrative tales. Hand stitching is a very time consuming process and if I had all the time in the world I would have gone on endlessly stitching my mums marks in to the scroll.