email i sent to Dionne (tutor) which sums up questions in last few weeks

Leona – Thanks. I think it should help you keep clarity to your vision.

‘Innovative plastic products that aim to device and confuse’

Dionne Swift
Textile Artist 12 November 2009 16:18

Creating a plastic product which has used innovative techniques that evoke deception and confusion through the material and the use of semiotics in an urban environment.

Hi Dionne

I've noted down a start of the ideas for the direction I want to go in and that statement we talked about.

I thought it would be more useful for me to e-mail it to you now to see what you think.



I like the idea of a product- design

This is the result of experimented techniques, through the manipulation of plastic (burning, melting, and stretching)

It's what my samples look like/reflect, and the strongest direction to take.

The surface

I've always been influenced by urban scenes; the linear horizontal and vertical lines reflect my graphic style of drawings. I also like layering different images to get exciting compositions. - This is where the idea of using plastic came from.



The idea behind

Signs, signals and semiotics

Signs shape our urban environment. They influence and power peoples thoughts and decisions. And every person has a different perception of a sign, or a piece of art and interprets it in a different way. - (this is the main focus of my monograph) the confusing, element that signs could have links in with the deception of the material.

They are an extension of a shop (advertising) - going back to the product, I could see my work displayed in shop windows or outside, streets, urban environment



The manipulation of plastic

The techniques I was experimenting with have shown the start of making my own signs through pushing the plastic into shapes that could be perceived as signs.