Why you should let me do a textiles degree
First draft
Will be subject to much revision
This is the bit where I tell you ive been interested in textiles all my life
Except I haven't, I've been interested in exploring how things work and how they relate to each other.
When I went to university straight from school I did an art history degree, I've never had a job that used it. But i do use it. I use it when I look at something, because I am aware that there is meaning in both what the object portrays, where it is, where it's been, in who's looking at it and where they have been. I was actually the person who got post colonial theory in my lectures, because I'd been a white child in Lesotho, and an English child in Southern Ireland and New Zealand. I knew inscintively what it meant to be different, to be the outsider, that this both gave you the ability to see a society differently and took away your right to speak about those differences.
I haven't done all the courses most of the people applying for this degree have, I know that puts me at a technical disadvantage. But one thing I do know, is that I can see. For the last couple of years I've been using my phone to take pictures and a nifty app called fotor to play about with them. The things that interest in me in a photo are contrast, colour and texture. The limitations of a phone camera are both a challenge and a frustration, but it's helped me learn about what works within the medium. So when I step up to a bigger camera I know where I can go with it.
I don't draw much, I've always been a lot more tactile about my creations, it why I knit. But I know drawing is something I can do, I just need practice. So I've done a short course online course, like so many things taking that first step and knowing the mistakes are okay is the best way to learn. Of course studying Michelangelo in no way helps ones confidence when putting charcoal to paper.
Knitting is something I've done all my life, I've found the mix of technical and creative both meditative and challenging. Most of the knitters I know I've taught, they picked my enthusiasm and that patterns are not rules, they create and explore. I hope they got that from me
I was told a few years ago that sewing wasn't like knitting, that id hate it. That I couldn't undo something or do it in front of the tv. I decided that I wasn't going to get things 'right' that id do it a bit at a time and reuse anything I cut for something else. It is now the thing I lose all sense of time whilst doing, I taught myself pattern alterations and techniques from the Internet. When I couldn't get the fabric I wanted I dyed it.
People say, oh I've always meant to write to novel, and I've always replied, why haven't you?
If something is important to you, you'll just do it.
I do knit, I do sew and I do explore the ideas of colour and texture.
Between knitting and dying and where i am in life. I have the freedom to explore where I can take these things by studying textiles in a structured way.
Will be subject to much revision
This is the bit where I tell you ive been interested in textiles all my life
Except I haven't, I've been interested in exploring how things work and how they relate to each other.
When I went to university straight from school I did an art history degree, I've never had a job that used it. But i do use it. I use it when I look at something, because I am aware that there is meaning in both what the object portrays, where it is, where it's been, in who's looking at it and where they have been. I was actually the person who got post colonial theory in my lectures, because I'd been a white child in Lesotho, and an English child in Southern Ireland and New Zealand. I knew inscintively what it meant to be different, to be the outsider, that this both gave you the ability to see a society differently and took away your right to speak about those differences.
I haven't done all the courses most of the people applying for this degree have, I know that puts me at a technical disadvantage. But one thing I do know, is that I can see. For the last couple of years I've been using my phone to take pictures and a nifty app called fotor to play about with them. The things that interest in me in a photo are contrast, colour and texture. The limitations of a phone camera are both a challenge and a frustration, but it's helped me learn about what works within the medium. So when I step up to a bigger camera I know where I can go with it.
I don't draw much, I've always been a lot more tactile about my creations, it why I knit. But I know drawing is something I can do, I just need practice. So I've done a short course online course, like so many things taking that first step and knowing the mistakes are okay is the best way to learn. Of course studying Michelangelo in no way helps ones confidence when putting charcoal to paper.
Knitting is something I've done all my life, I've found the mix of technical and creative both meditative and challenging. Most of the knitters I know I've taught, they picked my enthusiasm and that patterns are not rules, they create and explore. I hope they got that from me
I was told a few years ago that sewing wasn't like knitting, that id hate it. That I couldn't undo something or do it in front of the tv. I decided that I wasn't going to get things 'right' that id do it a bit at a time and reuse anything I cut for something else. It is now the thing I lose all sense of time whilst doing, I taught myself pattern alterations and techniques from the Internet. When I couldn't get the fabric I wanted I dyed it.
People say, oh I've always meant to write to novel, and I've always replied, why haven't you?
If something is important to you, you'll just do it.
I do knit, I do sew and I do explore the ideas of colour and texture.
Between knitting and dying and where i am in life. I have the freedom to explore where I can take these things by studying textiles in a structured way.