I've also been on a few more rubbish collection days with my daughter Romy. She likes climbing up the trees to collect the plastic bags caught in the branches. The last one we did was poorly attended, and the rubbish overwhelming. I felt depressed thinking about platypus (of which there seems to be at least one!) and other creatures eeking out an existence in the dirty creek, not knowing that the rubbish is not really 'meant' to be there.
It led me to begin some drawings using the rubber bands as a physical constraint to the pencil and my arm. The first drawing below is built up via one nail in the centre of the page. The band then controls how far the pencil can stretch from the nail.
Next were two nails. The pencil is constrained by two points within the band.
Then, again two nails, but this time the band had one twist in it (a figure eight around the nails), so that the pencil couldn't go around and around. At a certain point it was forced back the way it came.
I am considering if this is worth trying with drypoint tool on etching plate (but plan to keep drawing first). The passage from the mark of one band to many would become a series of prints. In the back of my mind I am thinking about textile patterns, what would it be to wear the marks of the constraining bands?
Below are a couple of pics from a group show at RMIT Project Space. The first is taken by my other daughter (Aphra), and the second with my phone through the window at night. Snapshots...
Linen, dyed with gorse and screenprinted
hand stiched and starched
At the other end of the table are another pair which connect to this end via the fingers.
