I had to make an unexpected work trip to London (for a currently undisclosable purpose) on Friday, but since the Post-Grad Community "Family Heirloom" was on display at the Central Saint Martins Library, I decided to take the opportunity to see it on display...
I dyed my hair "midnight blue" specially for the occassion - pictured here with two board members from the Young European Movement.
Johann kindly acted as photographer during the event on Friday night and I managed (after some tedious bureacracy) to get him a visitor pass so he could come to see the "Family Heirloom" in the library on Saturday morning.... which turned out to be uneccessary since it was a university open day and the barriers were open anyway!
The grand piano was out, so I made an impromptu performance before we headed up to the library...
Both myself and my course mate, Dee Matthews, contributed to the "Family Heirloom" and I was so happy when they stitched our two squares next to each other!
My piece was a chaotic tangled mess of paint and embroidery threads which stitched back together clits which I cut into the painted fabric. I made this piece as part of my recent exploration of mental health through textiles, using sewing as a metaphor for compassion and care - "A Threads of Empathy" holding together the chaos of the mind.
You'll have to ask Dee what her beautiful, embroidered square is about - It looks like a mystical love jelly fish to me!
The "Family Heirloom" will be on display at different UAL libraries during the Autumn.
Afterwards we took the Picadilly line to the Natural History Museum which I'm not sure I have ever visited (or at least not since I was a child, which I have no recollection of), so it was interesting to see.
I have to admit, natural history is not especially interesting to me, but I loved seeing the architecture of the stunning building and I found a few of the fossils and stones especially beautiful - these two were my favourite.
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