What’s your newest resolution?
Accident or purpose that I ask this question on the second day of a new year?
Something in between, maybe.
Even if New Year resolutions can be just another fabulous way to make you spend more money on things you will only use for a few weeks, there is something about a year finishing and another one beginning.
You look back, you realize what you have done, thought and made during 365days. What will the next ones look like? What choices will I make?
Even though the past choices have been made once more you feel the infinity of possibilities you still have in front of you. And if you are crazy enough to pick the edgy ones by the end of another year you could be on the other side of this planet doing the thing, that seems impossible to you in this moment, right now.
Maybe I will write my Hive article on this Monday in a year next to a mountain river in Kazakhstan, who knows.
What all of that has to do with printing my fabric with oranges and hands, you wonder?
It is one little step, bringing me a few meters closer to this very mountain river.
Printing this fabric with a design I made, is a project I started a few months ago, that I am still working on.
It is still evolving.
Even though I wanted to wrap myself in a massive scarf printed with the lines, the moment I finished drawing them, I didn’t let this urge take over.
I didn’t run and print and sew, trying to make it all in one night, to execute my idea for the next day.
Sometimes I learn fast and in other moments I learn a few times.
I still put myself in situations of fast working, overwhelmed without breaks. But not in this one.
For that reason, I am printing my fabric now, not just with lines of oranges and hands, but also with my newest resolutions.
Working on the project, on a bigger one, that I might not even know yet when I draw the first lines of it.
There are a few previous attempts coming together in this serigraphy session.
There is the silkscreen and the printed fabric of another trial as a base.
And the pattern I made, which still was on paper and in a file until that moment.
Part I Preparing the silk screen
To start I had to wash off the old paint from the silkscreen...
…a few chemicals and splashing water later
…I apply new chemicals
…wreck my head about the size and form of the pattern I want to apply to the screen
…decide to go for the pattern repeat
…uv-light to imprint the design on the screen
…first magic when I wash it off
…slowly the lines appear
...a lot of water
…patience between each step of waiting and drying
…and finally, the last preparations
...taping the edges
Part II Printing
Choosing a fabric…
…and I wanted to overprint this one I had made recently
…wondering what effect I would get by it
…intuitively choosing a colour, turned out to be blue
…a bit of tape
…placing the fabric
…already cut from another attempt to make a top or sweater, why not reuse it
…paint
…reveal
…and I can’t get enough of the sharp lines and bright clear paint.
I am in love with another beautiful process.
How will this project evolve next time I come back to work on it?
I don’t know. Even though I am still tempted to keep on printing and sew a sweater with this design the very day, I don’t. I walk away, take a break. And leave a few marks behind.
Until next time…
All photos are mine taken by me, so are the designs.
Thank you all once more to stop by and wish you all the best inspirations for another year!
Level up!! 💥
This is amazing on so many levels.
But the thing that struck me most is your patience with the creative process.
It's the biggest lesson I learned in 2021. To not rush to finish something!
Usually I have an idea and I want to get it "out" asap because I often have multiple ideas and projects on the go.
So many ideas. So little time :)
Learning to do something to the best of my abilities instead of just finishing it was a big thing for me.
And it makes the actual finishing of it so much better! When you've taken the toke to do it well instead of quickly
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So true, always!!
I would love to have a huge team behind me somewhere that could just execute all those ideas😅
Well I think I am about to learn that, but I must say my brain tries to pull me back a lot. But then again I am sick of the stress or pressure you put on yourself when you try to rush the process...
And thank you!!🧡
Yessss... and that feeling that you haven't pulled it off as well as possible afterwards. Not worth the rush.
It's really a skill, I think. To wait it out and edit. And then to know when you've edited it enough. I guess that's why we have things like editors! :D
😅 exactly!!
I love the bits of wisdom scattered into your post. This year, I am going to focus on work done by two philosophers writing about continual becoming.
Your post, at least the start, reminded me anew about them. Becoming. The end destination is not fixed, we are moving, but not necessarily towards a fixed point.
Anyways, awesome post! Loved the step by step photographs. It seems very complicated! Thanks for sharing and a blessed new year for you!
Thank you!!
And who are those philosophers or the book? Now I wonder...
...thats a nice way of looking at it, I guess the end destination is also constantly moving or altering by any decision you take one way or the other.
Its always nice to have you stopping by! And a wonderful new year to you as well!
Yes, that is so true! Some people might prefer a stable and definite goal, others like me prefer the idea of an always already changing goalpost. Never being always becoming. A nice quote, which on face value sounds very simple but which is very complex when you think about it, goes something like: you cannot read the same book twice. Every move you make in the cosmic game we are playing changes the rules and the game.
The two philosophers are Deleuze and Guattari. They are notorious for how difficult they are and the misreadings linked to them. A newbie to Hive and fellow philosopher, @newharvest, will attempt in some posts to make these philosophers more accessible!
@fermentedphil I think "being vs becoming" and "product vs process" might be an excellent place to start with Deleuze and Guattari! I'm on it...
This will be an interesting post! I hope to read something soon. I am also going to venture into this direction this year.
I like where this is going! ...seeing it as a constantly changing flow rather then just going from A to B in a straight line, which happens when in life?
Very nice way to picture it! You are never the same reader again...
but also @newharvest
...I like that point of bringing it together like that!
Exactly. I think the western mind is so fixated on fixing things and placing them in neat boxes, but when you really ponder things and "zoom" in on things, everything becomes fuzzy and "flowing".
for sure!!
Wow this are really beautiful
Thank you!
🥂💛 Thank you @ewkaw and @qurator
I love the patterns you created and the first one your put on fabric is amazing. I never read about fabric printing and only remember how to print with apostatise (as a child). But your technique is so much more evolved and there are so many possibilities here. I love how the lines and the color and the fluidity of the fabric work with/against each other and am looking forward to the clothes (perhaps?) you will make with your own printed fabric?
Oooh hello, you are back💛
Nice to read from you again!
Thank you!!
Oh yes there are sooo many possibilities, too many even:) I have never heard about apostatise printing, what is it? ...and well the clothes sooner or later I think, I am too curious myself to see how that would look like haha
Arghhhh had to laugh very hard. I guess autocorrection did something on its own, like invented apostatise printing… 🤣 because I wanted to write potato printing.
And yes, kind of back. Still in a writing slump and currently - like the last half year - more painting than crafting. But I hope I get my mojo back :-)
Thank you for the lovely welcome <3
Hahaha... I was thinking of potato printing, did that as a kid too but then thought there must be another thing I missed😅
...well I hope so too, would love to see what you up to, painting or crafting!!💛
I absolutely love the overprint❤️
To tell you the truth I was wondering how you didn't already tried to print fabric with your signature orange logo cause I was sure it would be awesome. And yes I was right about it!
Happy new year @kesityu.fashion with a ton of creativity!😊
Thank you!!😍
...and to you too Happy new year with lots of inspirations😏🥂
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