So, an unexpected turn to events. Just as I thought that the medical work had finished I was asked to create a new medical model. Imperial College was launching an anti-knife crime project aimed at young people and needed a model rather like the Textile Body (see most posts below!) but in full colour.
Then we went into lockdown. However, 18 months later I handed over the SomeBody, a large double sided textile book full of physical and emotional anatomy.It is designed to inspire both surgical and empathic insight into the terrible violence that many young people face.
A lot of time was spent researching what I could make that would be meaningful to young people and also be practical as a public engagement piece. There was also the anxiety of the pandemic to wrestle with and this was sometimes an almost insurmountable challenge.
The process was long and labyrinthine so I shall set it out as a list of thoughts; it is by no means a timeline as I tend to think in 'cloud' and then draw out meaning like spinning yarn!
1.what does it look like?
2.research book construction
3. re-evaluate the Textile Body
4.materials?
5. watch psychology videos
6. research what other organisations have dome
7. research how the body is represented in different cultures
8. double-sided? re-think everything
9. sketchbook
10. design , re-design, re-design, re-design, re-design,
11. make samples
12. how much silk??????
13. make, make, make, make
14. collaborate with Rachael Matthews on two parts of the book.
15. visit the Wyvern Bindery who will be making it into a book.
16. have anxiety attacks about whether it actually works.
17. deliver to Imperial College and hand over to Rachel Warr to work out the performance aspect.
next up: the skin layer.
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