Turning The Page … More Sketchbook!

Step1; Click to enlarge.

Step2; enjoy.

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Old Sketchbook Pages

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Waking Up The Old College – The Complete Collection

Hey this is mainly up for a) all of my friends who have been perplexed about what I’ve actually been up to on my course this term and b) all of you nice people who visit my blog all the time (I can see in the views  – thanks for keeping turning up! Sorry its been so long) and will have seen my previous post about this project and asked to see the whole thing once it was done.

well … its done!

I hope you like, let me know what you think.

The Old College is Aberystwyth’s original building on the seafront, and this is the last year we will all be learning in it cus they’re selling it this year, which makes me very sad. All the more reason to document the life you can just SMELL coming out of it and the atmosphere and magic, before it gets turned into offices :(

Click to see them bigger.

Oh and sorry about the fingers, the pages are springy. Might give you an idea of the size though, the book its kinda small.

love to hear your thoughts, thanks for visiting!

Kathy x

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Unfolding Myself

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A Bag…

… I ‘sharpied’ for my friend Rah :)

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Belong.

A little collection of manual photography I’ve been doing.

click to enlarge.

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Waking up the Old Collage

A project I’m working on about The Old College, the original university building in Aberystwyth.

click to magnify!

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Beyond Tapestry

Last year I was asked to create a tapestry fit for the new chapel my school was making.

It was suggested that I include the Litany Of Reconciliation, which is all about the requests for forgiveness. But half way through trimming the fabric for the words ‘Father Forgive’ for the seventh time, I wondered about the effectiveness of my hours. Surely before forgiveness comes a recognition that there is a god, then that he is good, and then you have to actually ask if forgiveness is needed from you. I felt like that not everyone at Bluecoat was at that stage, and they didn’t need to be … and a suddenly had an overwhelming itch to meet them where they were, not where anyone thought they should be.

I thought about meeting my 13 year old self, with her opinions and her ponytail and her rucksack of influences and messes and questions. And I thought about what I would have liked to tell her.

Here’s the finished thing;

made with Batik inking on fabric, ink stamps and photo transfering

Here’s what it says;

ABOVE AND BEYOND.

… The stigma of our childhood… The failures of our past … The preconceptions for our future… The doubt of the wind … The limits of our bodies and the boundaries of our imaginations.

…above culture and religion and the farce of the human reality, beyond dreaming and waking and working. Beyond ambition and temper and the rights and wrongs.

Above the do’s and the don’ts. Above the cargo of our lips and the weight in our ears. Above and Beyond the statues and the stars and the gates of right thinking … There is a field.

God? I will meet you there.

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Domestic Landscape

My first firstyear photoshop project

try swimming in THAT sea!

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