I spent some of yesterday doing experiments with possible techniques for the the overlays, and ended with with hands like Lady Macbeth's (always assuming that Duncan's blood was purple acrylic ink!). For such tenacious colour, the effect on the gauze was disappointingly feeble.
I'm concerned about the inktense because the first gauzes are beginning to look much muddier than when I started, but I think acrylic ink is not a better solution, in the end.
As I am looking back at the #DreamsOfAmarna project, planning the eventual book, I am thinking about what changed between when I started and when I got to the end (I think, the end!). One of the things that changed the most was that I didn't use nearly as much goldwork as I expected.
We all think of #AncientEgypt as being a place of gold and glamour, full of wonders of metalworking, epitomised for most of us by the famous death mask of #Tutankhamun. Somehow, that isn't where the #embroidery and #watercolour led me.... Projects, it seems, have a mind of their own....
'Part lottery, part systematic exclusion': three artists speak about the limitations of the meritocratic approach, and imagine how the art world could do things differently.
#WritersCoffeeClub 10/02:
What do you say to people who tell you they're frustrated writers?
Usually we'll sit around and bemoan the general enshittification of all artistic areas as they're taken over by the slimy, greedy corporations trying to suck all the money out of everything.
I optimistically bought "The Romance of Rahere and Other Poems" by Edward Hardingham, thinking it might at least give me atmosphere or something for my #OpusAnglicanum#Rahere, and it turned out to be a Civil War era romance about a girl named Rahere, in honour of the prior. She dies, leaving her young man distraught.
So, really, really not helpful! #ArtistsLife#Research
I had a bright idea for the next-project-but-three while I was walking up to my exercise class. I wish I had more time to work on all these ideas! #ArtistsLife#Designing