concept mood board

concept mood board

swatch explorations

swatch explorations


i have my inspiration and my idea and i have seen how various people have translated fractals into products. yet i feel stuck somehow i cannot conjure up any image of how i want my surface to look. what kind of a feel do i want to create, where do i use it.
usually when u have everything in place your mind automatically runs around trying to figure our what technique would translate it best.
i don't want to use dyes this time or at least want to avoid their use. i wish to explore the properties of a material and use it to alter the surface and avoid introducing a foreign substance.
so i tried manipulating the fabric my tessellating it in various ways.some of my swatch exploration are shown.

mind map

jackson pollock

Jackson Pollock's Fractals

The abstract painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is widely known for his spectacular, wall-sized paintings, which typically feature a combination of swirling drips, bright splotches, and bold, rhythmic streaks.Pollock's signature technique, which he developed in the late 1940s and early 1950s, was to drip house paint--in colors such as black, white, silver, taupe, and teal--from hardened, worn-out brushes, sticks, and other applicators onto enormous sheets of canvas spread across the floor. His approach, however, was somewhat more systematic than the chaotic results might suggest.
Pollock would begin by using a series of fluid strokes to draw a collection of loopy figures. When the paint dried, he would connect the scattered shapes with darker, thicker slashes of pigment. Additional layers of dripped, poured, and hurled paint would further obscure the original forms, creating a dense web of trails across the canvas.
The researchers discovered that Pollock's patterns could be characterized as fractals--shapes that repeat themselves on different scales within the same object. In a fractal object or pattern, each smaller structure is a miniature, though not necessarily identical, version of the larger form. Fractals often occur in nature, from the meanderings of a coastline, in which the shapes of small inlets approximate the curves of an entire shoreline, to the branchings of trees and the lacy forms of snowflakes and ferns.

fractals to tesselations

fractals lead to tessellations.A tessellation is created when a shape is repeated over and over again covering a plane without any gaps or overlaps.
tesselation occurs in nature just as fractals occur.

mathematics in textiles

explore the importance of geometric patterns in artistic design. Since ancient times, human beings have observed the world around them and found recurring patterns in nature. The Golden Proportion, the Fibonacci Series, symmetry movements, tessellations and fractals are some of the mathematical ideas that have found their way into art and architecture for thousands of years.

nature or chaos hs an order in which it occurs. this order is always pleasing to the eye because it relates to what we understand as proportion.
its about using algebraic equations to formukate the weaving pattern

or the fibonacci series-
A mathematical sequence consists of a series of numbers, usually starting at 0 or 1, all of which are derived from preceeding ones according to formal rules. In other words, no matter where you are in the sequence you ought to be able to deduce what the following number should be.The fascinating thing about it is that this sequence is actually found in nature with amazing frequency

fractals in nature

formulating more

after my brief discussion with meera on saturday, she kind of pointed out towards one of my themes- chaos and the theory of chaos.in the beginning when i started my research on theory of chaos it dealt with heavy scientific phenomenons and lengthy mathematic formulas.
i was getting really confused about the whole idea.
though i got the basic sense that chaos is basically very systematic arrangement , placed layer upon layer. any change in the initial conditions can lead to unpredictable changes. like flapping of butterflies wings somewhere could cause a storm in another part of the world. chaos id random but not exactly random.

anyways from confused chaos i came across the fact that chaos is made up of fractals.
now that is something i understand. what is fractals, where do they exist , what are they made of.
fractal is a shape that, when you look at a small part of it, has a similar (but not necessarily identical) appearance to the full shape. Take, for example, a rocky mountain. From a distance, you can see how rocky it is; up close, the surface is very similar. Little rocks have a similar bumpy surface to big rocks and to the overall mountain.
its a shape thats repeated again anad agian in various sizes to form a bigger picture.

fractals exist in nature at all levels.

mind map-body contour

mind map- coded cloth

coded cloth

this is another design idea that i have been wanting to pursui for a really long time.

interactive textiles. it all about fusing traditional textiles techniques with equisite new age technology to produce objects that react to human beings.

this is inspired off from my last project were i designed this jacket with reacted to light intensity.

coded cloth

this project stems out of my curiosity about integrating traditional textiles with equisite techology .

interactive textiles or techno textiles as its called today is used widely for medical purpose and other fields as well.

sensors are implated within the fabric to sense heart rate ortemperature.

its used at times to evoke certain feelings or emotions or regenerate certain experience.

techno textiles increase the field and area in which textiles can be used and provide a more 3-dimension perspective to it.it goes beyond just visual and touch. more sensations can be evoked.

using a soft material like textiles brings in a soft edge to other wise masculine metallic world.

its all about paper- first draft

its all about paper- project brief

paper is a contemporary means of expression with great potential.though we see paper everywhere in our daily life yet we fail to see its real value and ability to transfrom its self.though history testifies that paper was utilized more in the olden days then now.we are so absorbed in using off the mill products that the hand craft is loosing its importance. in japan hand made paper was made then spun into paper yarn. whihc was woven i to form fabric for garments called shifu.

as a medium on which we write , paper represents memory, human progress and dissemination of knowledge. but now it represents sustanability and versatility.this ability to be reused and recycled and being made from plant and fiber waste increases the nedd to explore and utilise this material in todays urban scenario.

apart from tthis paper has a rather sensual haptic quality. its softness, hardness, surface texture, ability to mould, colour and the illusive play of light abd shadow makes it a rather interesting work choice.

paper and textiles have an exciting constatly changing relation. they are very similar in quality, structure and usage.

the idea is to reinforce the fact that paper has a textile side to it.i want to use hand made paper and experiment with this rather versatile material. bound together on the loom or using off loom technique it has a massive potential to be crafted into produts for interior space. the need is to create from the quality of the paper and not use it as a substitute for other material.

it might just be a lot of experimentation with this medium with the outcome yet unknown.

mind map

paper vs textiles

This is my first post for this blog. the need for this post is to sort out confusion in my mind.

it about the old or new debate about using paper as textiles.

To what extent can you really push paper so that there is no difference left between paper and textiles.its true that they have a lot of similarity in terms of structure, quality and usage.

history holds records of time when oiled paper was used as sails or cloaks.

Japan has a tradition of making hand made paper out of natural fiber and then spinning them into yarns. these yarns where then woven into fabric called Shifu.

The sensual ,haptic quality, ability to be hard and soft at the same time, its surface structure , colour and the illusive play of light and shadow constantly attracts me to paper.

Paper has always been seen as a medium of knowledge, human progress, cultural and spirituality.today more than ever before we need to reinforce the need to go back to tradition and culture , connect to our roots.

So can this medium of culture and spirituality to transformed from its native state to something more.

This brings me to exploring more and more with paper using traditional textile techniques of weaving and off loom.using hand made paper i wish to explore various properties of the paper .