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“Like a volcano - dark to light again. It
would feel different in the middle and
at the edge. Web, tangle, repetition. I
measured the first piece of fabric.”
rough
rugged
old
ringed
wrinkled
knots
shadows
gnarly
grey
“It became about texture.
It became stormy.
The ‘eye of the storm’.
The materials emphasised
the texture … and then I
matched the colours to
make it more stormy.”
aged skin bark a hollow
wrinkles tears smooth
dryness blood smudged
sad direction movement
mournful eye tapa
bleeding shadow rough
injured brooding sand paper
rough veins
The same postcard elicited different, individual interpretations. Teacher~researchers were drawn to different
features/elements e.g. colour or form, atmosphere or shape etc. The materials suggested different possibilities e.g.
creating the circle of the knot in the bark in wire. Names for the arrangements emerged, sometimes from the
drawing, sometimes from the fabrics. And then a connecting thread could be seen throughout the work. Some
names were intersection points for ways of knowing: rationality, emotion, imagination and aesthetics. The names
gave an insight into the thinking of the teacher~researchers’ relationship with the tree.
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