Started construction of the cardigan sandwich.

| Sue Hare

It’s all very technical now. How to make a well constructed piece? I have decided to go ahead with the cardigan sandwich. It gives the right feel of “goneness” but lingering. I do enjoy the construction. Working out problems, such as how to sew together, how to enable it to hang correctly, how to present the pieces. Still pondering over stitches. I have printed a colour version and a flipped black and white version of each photograph. The coloured version is what you see. The surface. The black and white is representative of what you can’t appreciate when you enter a family room. This emotional history and events which have shaped the inhabitants. The “what if?” and “whys?” The process, this term is very personal, exhilarating and exhausting.

Pages of my sketch book. Ideas for stitches. I want to imply loose ends.
Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn offer some great ideas but they are not loose enough.
My own earlier work referenced here suggests entanglements. I have decided to use black threads shown only on the black and white side. They will be loose, removable and simply hang in place. Very loose ends,

After sewing the pieces together I started work on the black and white side.

These photographs gave me another idea, which was to photograph the images in the photographic studio in differing order to see how to hang them in the exhibition.

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