Dyeing with black beans. and shorts

Gonna dye these with black beans, and wear over orangey/rusty cycling shorts

Using the form/shape/line to encourage behaviour

And lines become tables.... tables mean a lot in terms of cooperation (if you scroll down to some photos of my sketchbook about tables you'll see some of the ideas)

They act also as a moral pillar. and this actually is in reference to Home and Away also but i'm working on that part...

Shapes/lines/forms = progressions/aids to certain behaviour/support/guiding

This is in reference to Kafka's 'The Castle' - but the castle being upside down to turn bureaucracy on it's head - cos that's what stops people learning self-sufficiency and trusting themselves and one another with tasks. It is the enemy!!

Bear in mind with this 'thresholds', 'progressions', 'exchanges', 'conversations', 'trying things and returning to other things' etc.... general characteristics of cooperation: reflected in a space

Books are SO my bag

A dress commissioned by the indie bookshop my mama works in - Ledbury Books and Maps. Maybe I can make them a uniform one day!

And one day I will actually book a photography studio or fix my camera and go outside and get proper photos of all my work.

Clarrie!! she hearts books too

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And when I got home from work today Dom had made my bed in the best way - it looks like a Red Indian/The Cure tribute/and exhibition of cushions by me and Rachael. 

Monday and Tuesday

Mastering inside pockets with french seams

I made a dress, that is apparently the same colour as Peckham in January. The blue light from the window in the studio today and all my grey and blue fabrics looked so great!

The blue at the back is cotton. The grey is crepe de chine (all second hand of course) and is pretty light - and whenever you're actually moving around and doing stuff and wearing light dresses it's nice to have reassurance that the back hasn't floated up in the wind or whatever - so this blue cotton weighs it down a bit, and is also just for a bit of extra resilience so it won't get caught so easily of you're sitting outside on the grass/climbing trees whatever. it also makes it sway a bit further away from your legs so it's a cooling system also, rad. Plus an all grey swag-dress would never do. It's basically for hot summers when you've been hard at work all day and now it's time to relax. highly suitable for this time of year.

Nice red legs from a too hot bath

Dom groovin'

Sunday morning studio play before work

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I bound lots of my cooperation/table monoprint/sketches into a book so they make sense

A few more clothing experiments 

And some very atmospsheric shots from Twin Peaks party