Monday 17 May 2010
Sunday 16 May 2010
Process and Practice.....
OK this is going to be pretentious!! I want to try and examine the relationship between the process and the practice that is shaping my project going forward.
I am at a tipping point. The first year is coming to an end and the work I am producing is testing the bounds of what I understand to be knitwear. In so far as I understood it the definition was pretty straightforward knitwear being wear that was knitted!! No surprises there then....But it is changing.
You don't describe garments constructed of woven textiles but assembled by sewing as Sew Wear so it it valid to describe garments constructed of woven textiles but constructed by Knitting as being different? I am thinking about this as I seem in some ways to be approaching my Chimera method but I am not sure it is easy to give it a label....which is understandable...
These garments will be part woven and part knit but the method of construction will rely on knitting....not sewing. I am thinking of this method along the lines of tailoring. Tailored garments have their own identity, they are not cut and sew they are Tailored.....because their construction draws from a specific area of expertise. So I am thinking about what my garments are....and I don't have a name. But they are knitwear in as far as the knit component is more than just a way of construction. It is inherent in the life of the process, the way they will be conceived and the form they will take.
For now although unsatisfactory it will have to do by way of explanation. I am trusting that as I continue everything will balance a little more and the what and the why will even out....
Clear as MUD!!
I am at a tipping point. The first year is coming to an end and the work I am producing is testing the bounds of what I understand to be knitwear. In so far as I understood it the definition was pretty straightforward knitwear being wear that was knitted!! No surprises there then....But it is changing.
You don't describe garments constructed of woven textiles but assembled by sewing as Sew Wear so it it valid to describe garments constructed of woven textiles but constructed by Knitting as being different? I am thinking about this as I seem in some ways to be approaching my Chimera method but I am not sure it is easy to give it a label....which is understandable...
These garments will be part woven and part knit but the method of construction will rely on knitting....not sewing. I am thinking of this method along the lines of tailoring. Tailored garments have their own identity, they are not cut and sew they are Tailored.....because their construction draws from a specific area of expertise. So I am thinking about what my garments are....and I don't have a name. But they are knitwear in as far as the knit component is more than just a way of construction. It is inherent in the life of the process, the way they will be conceived and the form they will take.
For now although unsatisfactory it will have to do by way of explanation. I am trusting that as I continue everything will balance a little more and the what and the why will even out....
Clear as MUD!!
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