Research.

11th November

Ruth Waller

In my tutorial i was told to look at this artist as her work is a lot like mine in the way she used both metal and felt, i am really interested in the felt balls also. Ruth Waller's work is very sensitive and when any movement close to the balls happen they begin the move. I really like the idea of them not being still. When making the balls it is a very hard task and you have to keep rolling and moving them so them still being able to move is really beautiful, almost like they are still not made and still growing. One thing i really like about Ruth Wallers work, Which also really links well with my sleuths, lies and spies project is that the metal is so fine and flexible. So far in my project i have been using metal mesh which is i  fine metal but a large amount of it put together. I really like the elegance of the really fine metal, but with the bold pieces of felt at the end, I really like the contrast of the material. I really like the idea of having such soft material such as wool and making it into and hard object, and what i really want to experiment more with is having the felt balls dropped into the dye baths, it shows how the library is not yet complete however it still looks amazing and the felt ball will not have its full colour but it still looks good with out the right amount of colour. I am really excited about adding the metal in also as the library at the minute has a lot of metal surrounding it.