Floating Leaves A

This project emerged form my 'Lined up & Scattered' post inspired by these two photographs. And what a journey it was. To recap, I based this project on two photographs of pigeons on railings I observe everytime I go past. They seem to be both lined up on the railings and to be scattered all around depending on any given circumstances. And that was what caught my attention.

As I progressed through the initial stages, I found it difficult to find the right title for this project.

It was not until I photographed few samples on a glass table that an idea of a title and the direction of the entire project started to take shape.

The samples seem to flow in the air (as pigeons would do) & I also observed the shadows of leaves on the wall that are in fact the table's decoration...

To fast forward, two outcomes started to unfold. One of a jewellery piece when the other would decorate and add to a wall deco. I am dedicating this post to the jewellery piece, a pendant on a chain I call 'Floating Leaves A'.

Since I photographed these few samples together in such an alighment, a vision of a pendant would not leave my mind. So I made another couple of leaves/pigeons, this time in different colour, connecting them into one piece, a pendant (right).


As if there were lined up... In a curve but still lined up...







Thinking of a chain, I went on making my own. Remembering the railings, I made two rows of stitches that I folded in half giving myself a comfortable width for my chain.

 

 The next step was to centre and join the chain and pendant together and here we are...

This was quite a journey. Oh, how much do I enjoy cracking a 'nut'. And now, off to 'Floating leaves  B'...

K-)

Lined up & Scattered

It was a Notting Hill Carnival weekend and of course it was meant to rain. Which is why I went to do a quick shopping before to beat the rain. My steps lead me by the canal where I passed this double row of pigeons...

At the same time, I could not stop thinking (or more trying to remember) of this crochet square that I had made some time before and honestly, I just could not recall what it was for.

And so, I decided to join the two together. (Because - why not?)





By twisting, turning and shaping the crochet sample in various ways, I ended up with this...

...and here we go. The way my brain works sometimes puzzles me.

The shape here actually reminds me pigeon's (or other bird's) form so my intention was to make few more of these and see where this is going to take me...

But of course, there is a little complication on the horizon. Few days ago, I went past the same location as at the beginning of this post and looked at it from a different angle. Literally.

This is what I saw. I must say there is something about seeing the pigeons scattered around as well as sitting in two rows on the railings that I feel I need to address.

Yes, a complication. So where is this project going...?


See you next time. K-)

Update: Saturday, 15 September 2018

Lined up & Scattered

This is the image I used in my Instagram post recently regarding 'Lined up & Scattered' project. At that point, I expressed uncertainty about the whole project wondering how to approach the work process.

After some analysis of this particular picture, two words came to my mind: 'floating' and 'leaves'. 'Floating because the samples seem to be floating in the air when placed on a glass table and 'leaves' can be visible as shadows of the table decoration.

Coincidentally (or was it?), I placed the few samples I had in this arrangement on my table and a thought started to emerge...

...a thought that I will keep to myself for now. In the meantime, have a lovely weekend and see you next time.

K-)