Again I hung my show whilst I was still knitting. I found this a good way to work as not only did it break up the monotony of knitting it also meant I could be productive outside of knitting and kill two birds with one bird so to speak.
My general programme would be to spend two nights after work knitting then a night hanging what I had knitted and so forth. In the final stages of my hanging I moved my knitting machine in to the gallery space so I could maximise my time and create more wool as soon as I ran out rather than having to go back home to do so.
This was very laborious but the excitement of seeing my show finally coming together far outweighed any complaints of fatigue.
To hang my wool I began by applying it vertically, as if wallpaper, to the walls and stapling each sheet in to place.
I didn't want each sheet to be perfectly placed in strips as I wanted to respond to the wool and the way it wanted to hang naturally. Instead of controlling the wool I reacted to each individual sheets personality. Each sheet was entirely different, some with flaws which altered their aesthetic entirely.
After I had hung every sheet of wool I then began to manipulate certain areas of the wool with a yellow gloss paint - the same of which I used for the woodwork.
I chose specific areas and poured paint accordingly to each. Not only was this to explore the relationship paint had when used with wool but it also explored the depth created after application.
Wool is super absorbent and with a paint so thick as gloss applied it was exciting to see how the wool reacted.
At the end of hanging I finished off by giving the floor it's final cover of yellow paint so that it would be perfectly yellow for the opening.
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