From Hell........Beautiful Disease....

This is the sixth and final piece of this "Embroidery From Hell" collection, The last unlike the other focuses on the blood of the heart as a spreader of disease through out the body.....

The green leaf like pattern represents the disease, kinda looks like a hash leaf haha, I choose green cause that is the colour I represent with disease,

I used a dark blue thread to give the valves of the heart definition,

I then used pink thread to give the heart a 3D appearance, which didn't really work in my opinion,

The disease begins to spread away from the heart in the form of a green artery,

The close up of the heart and the "Disease" in my opinion is quiet eye catching,

The back of the piece,

The Final faze, the piece mounted on a wooden frame and ready to join the 5 others.

From Hell........

The Images above depict my "Fish and Chips Heart", it is meant to be like a parcel you open and the blood and veins of the heart sprawl and grasp outwards, the wet effect was achieved by mixing paint and liquid latex, I also drew inspiration from the film "From Hell" directed by Albert and Allen Hughes, staring Johnny Depp, the scence is were Johnny Depp receives a package containing a human kidney from Jack the Ripper.....

While making the "Fish and Chips Heart" I got a taste for stiching and decided to go down the embroidery route.

This is my favourite image, it shows the inticate blue and red veins and how their coluir compliments each other,

In this piece I began to mix felted wool with  embroidery, The effect was effective and visually pleasing in my opinion.....

In this piece I used blue as the dominant colour instead of red.....I then left lose thread from each stitched vein, I put the piece in the washing machine in order to felt it a bit, then spread the thread with starch and tossed them around for a more organic look.

This is a fiber optic light, the picture was taken with a slow shutter speed...or something..lol

In this piece the main part was felted wool with embroided veins,

Examples of the wool used,

I stitched the out line of the veins and looped thread inbetween them to fill the middle,

Sprawling, Bloody, Veins......

After I finished with my sculpture of the "Angle Veins", I decided to focus on the 2D aspect of the project, I refered back to the pattern I designed back in October while looking at "Paddy Fields".

I decided to go larger, and use the finished piece as a template to cut out the pattern on a sheet of wood.

I liked the vividness of the black line against the brown paper,

I lost interest in this quiet quickly after attempting this with a copping saw and dedcided to look in a different direction, I tried recreating the spawling veins buy dropping ink into water,

I then dropped the ink on to a page and used a hair dryer to make the ink sprawl out, at all time I had the image of a heart and it capilaries in my minds eye.

The effect was very effective, But hard to control.

I decided to mix both 2D and 3D and see how it inspired me, I took inspiration from the Piece show above made by the artist PATTI,

Me experimenting with spawling strands of wool,

The lozenge pattern,

The lozenge pattern reminded me of the surface of the heart muscle,