Progress on Taplow Vase

   

My interpretation  of the Taplow Vase in 'secret book's' made of cotton organza is beginning to take shape. Read more about it in this blog post.

Taplow Vase - Progress

Inspired by the idea of drawing the Taplow vase on cotton organza and building multiple layers of the images, I've been experimenting with how I might display them.  From the sales table at the last TVCQ meeting I had a couple of copper/brass rings - perhaps I could suspend them in some way?

I'd been led into the idea of 'secret books' of the images when writing up Novembers activities in the pages of my sketchbook

Trying to see how they looked suspended, I enlisted the help of a spare airer tripod (which normally collapses with the weight on even 1 coat hanger). Not for the final display I think!

The Orginal Taplow Vase - the source of inspiration

Taplow Vase- A secret book ?

 In my sketchbook for Art Co-op Sketchbook Project I did a double page spread for each month in 2010 so for November I wanted to illustrate  what we did in the last TVCQ meeting : making books and discussing ideas for the exhibition. Having already chosen the 'Taplow Vase' and interested in combining multiple viewpoints, I scribbled some outlines on a piece of tracing paper and folded it in 'secret book' format.

Love the results and  and currently trying different organdies , printing , drawing and stitching to see what happens.

Cubist Taplow Vase?

Having long been fascinated by shards of pottery and archeological finds, it was the Taplow Vase that grabbed my attention on visiting Slough Museum
Influenced by the potential in cubist paintings ( Braque, Piccaso and Villon below) of multiple viewpoints combined I've been playing around with opacity layers in Photoshop. I like the new shapes that are revealed.


Now how to intrepret it? Transparent layers in organza? A 3-D Structure ? Both? I've suddenly become interested in lampshades and their possibilities!