'Artificial Intelligence'

Mon 6^th – Fri 10^th March, 2017

     To begin Unit X my group and I all gathered together to start to come up with ideas that could work for us. After much discussion down different paths we finally settled on ‘Artificial Intelligence’; focusing on machines being a fundamental part of life that is taking over jobs, but will never be able to replace a creative mind. From this I then went away and began to think about my initial perception of ‘Artificial Intelligence’. It is something we had discussed in our meeting which I wanted to try and generate ideas and colour schemes (etc.) from. This process really allowed me to visually see a starting point for our project to help me to progress with refining ideas that we can all branch out and work with.

                 Within our specialism we are all capable of doing an array of things with very specific skills. We all very much want to group these together and pass our samples around the group to be worked on by each other. Therefore with only having 7 weeks, this alerted me to thinking about my warp; how it needs to be to work with the group (as well as myself); and the type of yarns that will provide me with the right aesthetic.  Jack and I then went to see what yarns were available to us and how they fit with our brief.

                After collating a mood board together of all of our ideas it was then easier to see a colour scheme and textures that might come into play. This then aided me with narrowing down ideas for a warp which I hope to begin making next week. Over the weekend I will be refining yarn weights, colours and threading to hopefully have a set idea to work from.