Francis McArthur
MY TOWN
Inspiration
During lockdown I went for ever longer walks. I walked along familiar streets and discovered places I did not know existed: I walked through new estates of houses built on former wild land - nature fragmented; past once elegant Victorian villas gone to dereliction and overgrown by nature; along the beach after a big storm where I saw the detritus, large and small, left behind. As I walked, I thought. Things die, become degraded, but a slow process of rejuvenation continues endlessly. Fragmentation is the stuff of life.
Materials and techniques
Fabric paint applied to white background fabric via Gelliplate and home-made string print block. Markal paintstick and Neo II rubbings more fabric paint and large amounts of free style machine stitching.
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During lockdown I went for ever longer walks. I walked along familiar streets and discovered places I did not know existed: I walked through new estates of houses built on former wild land - nature fragmented; past once elegant Victorian villas gone to dereliction and overgrown by nature; along the beach after a big storm where I saw the detritus, large and small, left behind. As I walked, I thought. Things die, become degraded, but a slow process of rejuvenation continues endlessly. Fragmentation is the stuff of life.
Materials and techniques
Fabric paint applied to white background fabric via Gelliplate and home-made string print block. Markal paintstick and Neo II rubbings more fabric paint and large amounts of free style machine stitching.
Click on image to enlarge