Textiles
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Gabriella
- Name of final piece: Crux of the matter
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- Media: Modrock, wire, mesh, wall filler, chicken wire and tissue paper sculpture
- Description: I decided to work on the idea of the condition rather than my personal expectations. I wanted to create something shocking. I wanted to show contrast between perfection on a young fit person and imperfection in the underlying, hidden and fatal problem. I have made the heart erupting from the person to bring peoples attention to it. The title "Crux of the matter" means the heart of the matter, the most important thing or the centre if your heart, the most important part of you.
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Jessica
- Name of final piece: Surrender
- Dimesnions: Height: 104m, Length: 53m
- Media: Textiles
- Description: As this project is to make awareness of undetected cardiac abnormalities in young people. I thought my work should focus on the heart. I wanted to create something 3D instead of a 2D textiles. With 3D textiles, it will give shape and depth and I could play with the sculpture. The idea behind my work is similar to the proverb "don't judge a book by its cover". As the inside of the heart sculpture will show my experience of the ECG test which monitor electrical activity within a heart. I want the outside of the sculpture to distract viewers so that the viewers will focus on the surface of the heart sculpture. A healthy heart, but by looking through the window of the heart sculpture, I wand to give impact to the viewers first impression of my sculpture. That first impression is not what it seems. Where the out side of the heart sculpture looks healthy but inside the sculpture lies the real problem which is a strangled heart, literally a dead heart. Just like a cardiac condition, the heart stops beating for no reason and surrender life and before you know it, you're dead. Therefore, you cannot judge a healthy person on living a long life from an undetected cardiac abnormality. And I want people to think about their own heart.
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Lauren
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- Personal Comment: None
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Sarah
- Name of final piece: Heart Felt
- Dimesnions: 150cm x 70cm
- Description: The felt balls, when cut, reveal a secret interior, symbolic of cardiac risk in young people. They also map out the organs and circulatory system, highlighting what is inside, but also concealing what is inside. They way the heart conditions conceal themselves. The embroidered words reflect my feelings towards the project and other statements relevant to the cardiac condition.
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Group Facilitator: Kathy Schicker
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- Name of final piece: 416 ways to break a heart
- Dimesnions: 100cm x 245cm
- Media: Hand printed wallpaper
- Description:
This wallpaper is inspired by the number of young healthy people who pass away due to Sudden Cardiac Death Syndrome each year. I wanted to create a beautiful design, where each heart commemorates one of the cherished young people. As with the syndrome, the design is not all that you immediately perceive; the young people appeared to be perfectly healthy before their sudden death, but each of their hearts had an undetected cardiac abnormality. I have incorporated this into the piece, as hand printing means that the piece will have minor faults, while appearing perfect. This illustrates how easily this syndrome can be overlooked, but, as in testing the health of your heart, the faults can be easily found if you know what you are looking for.
Untitiled - Printed textile - 23cm x 11cm This small piece depicts the clinical experience of the ECG text. Its beauty and insignificant size represent how simple and easy the test is.
Security - Printed textile and hand embroidery - 27cm x 52cm This piece represents my experience of having an ECG test. I have used the documentary photos of the process by Zoe Childerley to print a quilted blanket. Created in layers and stitched together with hand embroidery, the piece explores the multi-layered experience while representing the security of knowing that the text as confirmed that I have a healthy heart.
About The Group
Use of chicken wire frame a designed textile wraps around the shape of the frame. This idea is based on the project silent at heart. I thought the shape of the sculpture should be a reminder of the heart and cone or funnel hat comes out of the heart represent blood flowing in and out of the heart. I thought the ball that is (illegible) the funnel represents the thing that stop the heart beating just as we know the heart stops beating for no obvious reason which silent at heart is making aloud this heart condition.
I'm not sure of what my textile design looks like but my idea is to use the ECG medical test experience to help me design the wrap.
- On the back blue circulatory system - blue free form embroidery
- Display in mannequin / Organs + felt balls
- Circulatory system mapped out by had embroidered words/ bead/etc
- Large felt ball for heart
- Felt balls make up different organs
- Circulatory system. (cut out blue fabric behind?)
- Circulatory system. Embroidered writing (dots beads etc)
- Large felt ball where the heart is
- One felt ball for every person who dies each year form CRY
- Blue - cut through black dress to reveal blue fabric
- Embroidered writing mapping out circulation
- Something behind where the heart is
- Felt balls stn together makes a curtain which hides what really is going on in the body
- Catsuit or mod rock sculpture