Sticking to my true intentions...

After resolving how I would classify the differentiations between classes and taste. I felt the initial sketch ups of my net curtain have been distracted by my ideal of making a beautiful piece. But by doing so my design has been distracted from the statement intended. 

I have revised the layout and have grid out a new way to include the imagery used in my design. What is important is that as the methodology of making the piece wont be made from traditional hand made lace that i should at least keep the design at least comparable to the nature of what a net curtain is. 

Below is a quick screen grab of the new layout, which is more refined and loosely based on the structure of net curtains found in my research.

The eight icons of modern class

Appropriate Materials

Suitable outcomes for my final piece are out of the following:


- Printing on Silk a sheer fabric that allows for semi transparency whilst holding onto the images


OR


- Lazer cut onto a fabric or thick paper, fabric is preferred as when cut by laser the heat of the laser seals the fabric wherever it cuts.


Tomorrow I am printing a test sample on fabric to see how it looks. 

In the middle of the motif of the eight signifiers will be drawn out map of London to which I will shade the significant areas to where would best demonstrate the taste of such items on the curtain.

The particular areas are shaded by determining by splitting the city through the fairest way of establishing income based upon council tax figures in according to boroughs. Below is the wealthy followed by the less so fortunate.

The Eight Signifiers

The design for the curtains I am creating centres around a central circular motif that displays icons that signify the following eight stereotypical visual identifiers that distinguish between class or having good taste. Though these icons could be said to be temporal and particularly of now they will still always hold a stigma that is associated to them as signifiers.

In no particular order:

1, The supermarket to where you grocery shop.

2, The newspaper you read.

3, The car you drive.

4, The jewellery you wear.

5, The clothes you wear.

6, The language you use particularly slang.

7, The style of house you live in.

8, The breed of dog you own.

For both the curtains I shall draw the answers to these questions in respondence to the stereotypes commonly held.

Below is diagram to which I will place the visual identifiers within the circles. 

Film update

With time looming I have organised deadlines of production and slots to photograph and film my piece.


Though there may be little discussion on my blog about the film piece I am aware of its significance. The film will frame the project, being a documentation of the production of the net pieces sliced with footage of the nets hung up on a washing line in slow motion. The contrast of the pace will help create a dynamic to which the viewer will experience the work for all its detail.


The significance of using a washing line, is the common tradition of how it was thought important to air out your clean white nets in public as a statement of house cleanliness and wealth of which one is able to have more than one pair of net.


These initial thought will be developed once the the nets become a physical tangible material this week.

The Background

Here are the initial workings of the base pattern to which I will overlay the visual identifiers that I am identified/drawing.

NB - I must consider the weight of the lines of which my work will be vectorised with, as clarity to the viewer is important to me.