Day 4

Concept of the day, camoflage, as in the way that animal's skin, fur, scales work. The two weaves I have tried, on paper, so far are a weave that resembles zebra stripes and one that resembles fish scales.

I'm a bit disappointed, so far, in the amount of interaction I've had with others at the school. I've been the initiator every time, and only once has the person talked to me afterward. I understand because they have classes with one another and are bound to interact and be aware of each other's projects, and also because they are Brits who do tend to be slow at connecting. Today I ate at the school cafeteria, hoping that someone would come and share my table. There do seem to be a good number of, let's say grown-ups, around.

I got a chance to run my idea past a friend who is an artist today and it was well-received, understood right away. She's going to apply for the AA2A next year.

Now, i may get repetitive here, but I don't remember whether I wrote about this or not, so I'm going to add it. I'm not looking back before I do each day's posting, because I want each day's impressions to have to do with that day. Yesterday, one of the students was working with a knitting machine, combining yarn and wire, and acheiving a scuptable fabric. Intriguing. She was also workin with raw linen, laying it in as you might any other kind of roving, and getting a furry fabric. Wit the wire, you would have scuptable, light-weight, "fur". That and the iron on foils that were going up on the board are sticking in my mind. I can't quite imagine how they would fit into this project, unless I used the foil as a resist, but I will have my notes to remind me of the possibilities afterwards.