London is my home. In part. But there are also now elements of nature and the straight lines of the canals pulling into them, I am part london and part Llanymynech.

Last week I visited the part of me that dominates. Not only to visit firends, but also to visit CSM and try something new with my creations, I met new people. People that helped me to learn practical skills that I’m so desparate to know. Practical skills are beginning to become my saving grace, getting lost in the process, allowing myself to become absorbed. Picking up the guitar again, learning a new dance.

I decided to chose screen printing as my medium this week. And had planned on shooting a video with a friend but the coldness made me empathaise with who frozen she would become in the outfits we’d planned. We canceled.

I designed a piece digitally and then used it as a guide for mark making. I’ve often stayed in the digital realm but this time I wanted to use my digital skills as a way to guide and inspire me rather than printing digitally straight away.

The piece came under the new idea I have for my study statement called ‘here to protect’, a comment on the idea that men are here to protect women within a heterosexual relationship. Commenting on a feeling women can often feel when under this ‘umbrella of protection’ within these relationships, that the thing that is meant to protect them is actually the thing causing them harm. Rain coming from the umbrella, not hitting it from the outside.

A feeling I have felt before, where you are led to believe that the feelings of unease or anxiety that you have when with someone romantically, are caused from external sources, only to slowly realise that the person you are with is the one that is causing the unease.

I made the print colourful and bold. I want my pieces to feel matter of fact. Concepts that are known. Concepts that can be communicated quickly and clearly. That those in the know will understand.

Remembering the process of Screen Printing

Mark Making

Exposing

Cleaning

Fixing to screenprinter

Ink

Screenprinting