I've been studying Textiles for a wee while now and have been working with the idea of loved things being left behind, and the sensation I experience when I see these things of care which are now longer needed. I have also been thinking (for many years) about how people create their own world around them, and how each reality is created by the observer. These ideas have inspired this piece.
This is my final piece. I hope you can see with the photos that the eye has a 3-d effect - behind the first translucent eye (a photo of my eye onto a piece of fabric) there is an embroidered eye. The idea behind seeing causes you to be seen, and create a reality.
The photo which is the first layer is from a series of photographs (see left) I took with a pair of tights pulled across the lens of a camera to the corner of my eye. It created the right texture, but I had already been experimenting with tights in my work. They are on one level (and certainly historically) a glamorous textile, but they have an easy vulnerability, which once laddered seem sordid. I like this delicate balance.
My next project developing from this is to try and understand how to make lace, as well as playing around with bought lace.
