Do a textiles project in 1 1/2 days! Ahhhh!!!

Well, I've just started my art foundation and during the introductory stage we have 2 1/2 days trying out each area of the Art Academy to get an idea what we want to specialise in.

2 1/2 days is pretty short time to fully explore a project and THEN we found out we were life drawing the first day rather than starting the first project! Pressure!!

Anyways, my first area was textiles and we had to make something in the time out of the materials available inspired by something in Cambridge - which for me was the botanical gardens.

Here I will post my inspiration and then the finished piece - a bag - which I think, for 1 1/2 days ain't bad (especially as I'm noooooo textiles expert!).

A Medicinal Flower

Day Twenty Seven - Art using items to do with medication.

This piece is made from approximately one months worth of my families mental health related medication (the medical minded among you may even be able to work out exactly how mental my family is!).

I decied to make it into a sort of flower just because I thought trying to create an attractive organic shape out of something very cold and manufactured looks - not to mention something that can make people uncomfortable - might be interesting.

I think people would be surprised by how many medication flowers blossom in households they think they know.