Hands: Material Experience
A majority of my inspiration comes from the handcraft. I was drawn to the spirit of the hand-craftsmanship that explores concepts of the care and touch of rural objects and intrigued by how the raw material and industrial metal consisted together: the composition of two materials with different values.
My process starts with the material experience and I aim to explore various materials to fill my collection. About repetition and practice, I think and try material at the same time. I weave and make. Material is how I am revisiting imagination.
The making process is primitive and instinctive. I started to weave material from what was around me. It was an instinctive and simple idea and focused on creating small sculpture series.
Choosing the material that could be easy to get. Just by twisting wire, I could build the little sculpture. My process starts with the material experience and explore the idea of combining the organic material: fibres and industrial material: metal.
The process of making works is to focus on the essence of material own. I tried to capture the process of making soft fiber materials into fabrics through craft processes based on metal. Finding the right material while considering the properties of the material was also part of the experiment, and solving the problem of what the right material was also one of the necessary processes.
Translating a weaving system in my own language
I control and create by hand and everything is made with close care. I spun yarns. Even if it took time, the hand spun yarns were clearly different compared to the manufactured yarn. While I'm working, I continue to allow for the material and physical properties of the material and make clothes through my interpretation of the material. As I made a larger sample, I was able to find that the strength that is supported by the metal, and the flexibility caused by the fiber.
Inspired by the process of installing warp in weaving, I made textiles using yarns, wire and beads. I used 100% cotton and waxed cotton wove with metal in middle to hold the shape of yarn. I studied and tested from yarn to textile and how textiles are engineered into garment.
Weaving is very beautiful and have a long history but I felt like it’s time-consuming and require speed up process. However, I wanted to keep narrative in handcraft but also short cut the time. I decided to reinterpret weaving by using the industrial technology like I drawn to raw material and industrial material combined together. I found a company called “byborre” based in Amsterdam and technology that could help me realize a craft process in a digital. I traced the contour of my handcrafted samples and build the layers of the contour and design a knit structure. I wanted to translate weaving system in different dimension.
As I understood the weaving structure by hand, I was able to move away from material- oriented thoughts and approach the stage of experimenting that weaving is possible not only with fibers but also with laser-cut fabrics. I tested with two pieces of diamonds shape cut fabric. I used diamonds shape of yarn made of fabric and done diagonal access in empty diamond cut fabric. I used the patterns that don’t interfere textiles inside the garment. A simple and minimal shape like frame illustrate the properties material.
Curating a comprehensive series from the perspective of weaving. I aim to translate a weaving system in different dimension of my own language. Therefore, communicating the contrast of two concepts : handcraft, digital textile techniques.
