Golden Bear Audio Guide
Work 3: Golden Bear, 2014
Digitally woven cotton, thread, leather | 35 x 18 x 5 in.
Process: I attached a symmetrically patterned piece of fabric to the wall in the middle and sewed folds in place on one side, copying each fold carefully on the other side. I repeated this hundreds of times, often undoing the stitches and folding again in a different way if it didn’t feel right.
Concept: I wanted to make something that wasn’t flat and to manipulate the image physically with the same ease as manipulating it in Photoshop. I transformed the original pattern into something that had a character and something that surprised me.
Activity
Folding, Drawing, Cutting Exercise: Supplies: paper, drawing tools, scissors
- Take a piece of printer paper and fold it in half vertically and horizontally. Do this several times to make a grid.
- Unfold and use colors or black and white pencils/pens/crayons to make a horizontal symmetrical design on the front AND back of the paper.
- Make 3 symmetrical folds along diagonal lines on each side so left and right sides mirror each other.
- Make 3 mirrored symmetrical cuts on each side and remove those sections, pulling out these extra flaps of paper to create a complex composition that surprises you.
- Keep going until you are pleased with the product. If you aren’t, start over again inventing a system that works for you.