interpretations...

Another two assignments handed in - good to be finished with them. One of them, the Personal academic Development was particularly dry but had to be done as part of the college curriculum. The other was moderately more exciting, it being a print out of this blog, in glorious technicolour but nothing as good as reading the real thing online. I printed it in colour only the blue ink ran out so it did look a little sorry for itself but the content was there non the less. Content that did fulfil the brief but as if you have been following this missive does diversify from time to time so we will await assessment and see how that has gone down.

In the mean time the Dr Martens project develops... the plot thickens and my interpretation of the brief has also diversified and after discussion with my tutor I am offering a marketing concept for the north east rather then a design for actual boots. I have had great fun knitting rope, macraming ( yes revisiting the dreaded macrame!!!) fishing nets cording shoe laces and ropes from all sorts of varied materiel - wool , wire , ribbon, Jersey fabric - the list goes on. Almost all the materials used are recycled or found materials which is a great way of creating something out of nothing. All these pieces are now sitting together woven into the discarded front of an old lobster pot found on the beach and its quite an effective piece.

detail of larger finished piece

I've completed two hand rendered boards and now I'm just playing about with ropes and fabric for my final concept. This has been a really enjoyable journey all to be finished for hand in after the Easter break.

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Scotland part 2

The second half of the week continued in much the same vein. We had one rainy afternoon which was actually quite nice to be holed up in the house with the rain lashing the windows. It probably wasn't quite so nice for the two visitors that came on their bikes but they're tough cookies - and its only water- but I did feel sorry for them having to cycle six miles back down the track in the wind and rain, but given Scotland, it wasn't as bad as it could be. The big quest for the 2nd half of the week was to find some deer antiers! The chap that owned the house dropped in to visit - he was a very friendly fella and was chatting about how this was the time of year when all the Stags lost their antlers (he collected them and sold them) so after that we were on the serious lookout. It's always been Fred's mission to find some dropped antlers.... The Monro baggers continued with the mission to bag the remaining three Monros... there is discussion as whet...

Vigo

We left the ship to explore Vigo. Its a much larger place then we expected... although tbh I hadn't given ut a lot of thought. Its a real mish mash of old and new and having got a map from tourist info we decided to follow the walking trail to the Monte Castro... the highest point of the town. Most of the town was pretty much as everywhere else... lots of traffic... lots of people... one or two interesting buildings and a lot of shopping. We headed to the art gallery - this has been a year of gallery visits so we we seen o reason to change now. The Museo de Marco is housed in the towns ex prison building and its very grand. In fact, I think that on this occaision the building might have been more interesting than the art.... Although the visiting exhibition by Susanne S D Themlitz was strangely compelling. It was a huge varied collection of eclectic items... found, salavaged, manipulated and arranged in lots of ways - weirdly inspiring - and mostly enjoyable to look at...

Funchal

So after three days at sea we finally hit Funchal in Madeira. An escape from the ship, and I have to say it was very pleasant indeed. First of all the weather is really splendid. Especially when you know that everybody else in the UK is suffering grim storms and vile winds.. Over here it is between 22 and 25 degrees is really quite warm. Funchal is a pretty city. It's built on a hill it with lots of lovely white houses with stunning red roofs. In order to get the best of it we walked along the sea front until we got to the cable car and we took it up the hill. It was a really good ride much longer than we imagined and it's quite weird because it goes right through the town - completely over everybody's house... So not only do you get a lovely vista of the bay but you can view the beautiful rooftops and get to look in everybody's gardens and to look at their picnic sets.. clean washing nice plants... scratty b...

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