Page 47 - The Digital Cloth - Issue 5
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I live in a small village in It’s fascinating to see the
Beyond the Surface England, where it often rains surfaces reveal.
shapes and textures that the
the North West of
It is these images that are
and where I often walk over
my inspiration.
the nearby Lancashire Pennine
moors and around the local
reservoirs. My work is driven by my
insatiable appetite to
experiment with a wide range
Marian Jazmik The inspiration for my work of materials. I often use
household products that we
comes from the photographs
I take whilst out walking. would otherwise discard.
I use my camera phone and Ranging from plastic food
literally take photographs packaging, polythene bags,
of the nature I observe. I plastic piping, wire, straws,
am particularly inspired by paper cake cases, cotton
the lichen and fungi I come buds, plastic screws and
across on the hills and in washers from the DIY store,
the hedgerows along the paths hair bobbles, garden netting
and forest areas through and much, much more! My
which I walk. workroom abounds with a
Once home I download the wonderful eclectic mix of
photographs on to the what others would call
computer and then enlarge ‘rubbish’
them in order to make I do not use a sketch book
‘macro’ images and although I often have a vague
revealing the textures not idea of what I think I would
visible to the naked eye. I like to produce inspired by
spend a while at the my photographs.
computer exploring the I usually start a new piece
surface textures recorded. of work by selecting a wide
This usually involves quite a range of fabrics (often
lot of ‘cropping’ and the picked up in the remnant bin)
enlargement of chosen and I set about the
sections to the point that construction and
the original image becomes deconstruction of
almost unrecognizable. materials in order to produce
