A Summer of Travelling

The summer between my first and second years at Central Saint Martins I somehow managed to go on at least 3 holidays. From all these holidays and travelling up and down from London to home and around and about across London I collected tickets, photos, momentos. When it came to Projects in my second year all I wanted to use was this collection. When I moved from London back to home last Summer I managed to lose nearly all my fabric samples from this year (don't ask me how, its amazing how much I lost during that move, including my car, which is an entirely different story). I managed to keep the sketchbooks though, and in one I discovered this ticket collection, which I obviously in a fit of organisation installed in a book to be kept forever (which I am very glad about now!).

This week I discovered a digital back up of some of my favourites of these samples. Albeit not a particularly good digital back up, as my photography skills are sometimes quite terrible. I also found some scans of some of the images the textiles came from. I had forgotten about my love of sticky back plastic and strips of paper. I think I spent the first 4 months of that academic year constantly carrying round these strips, I am still finding them falling out of sketchbooks years later! Having re-found these images I think I have been re-inspired, which is always nice. So I shall show you world these crazy collages, which sum up that summer for me, fast and colourful and crazy.





Up there are the original collages, and down there is an example of the accompanying fabric - I think the thing I miss most about university is the heat transfer press!



Sometime soon I shall commandeer the photocopier in my local library and return to my crazy paper strip ways.