This is another work from James’ portrait in the Divorce series.
It’s the first one completed. It went through multiple iterations.
Here is an early draft of it – which i wasn’t happy with – “too cheesy”.
I sliced the portrait into a series of 30 x 60 pieces, with the original idea of using the cricut to cut words into it. But the thickness and unevenness of the surface (because it’s a collaged piece with multiple layers, and on canvas paper) meant it wasn’t going to work well for the cricut.
So I went to officeworks and bought some turquoise, navy and pale blue A4 paper to back it. But it didn’t take well to the glue – it was a little fatigued and broken.
I cricut-cut words – part of a verse of the song I wish you love
I wish you health
and more than wealth
I wish you love
still wasn’t right, so I added some vines and hearts from my Japanese Pattern Sourcebook. And a layer of bondcrete (what I’m currently using as glue, because my brother gifted me 15 litres of the stuff!).
It was shiny (not that happy about that) and cheesy. See the video below.
So the story continued.
I ended up chopping up each of the pages and making a longer smaller concertina that fit into a box I already had.
Covered the box.
Sewed all of the pieces together with a Figure 8 stitch, with thread bought way back in 2011 at Dick Blick in Chicago, never used.
Here, soon, will be a video of the final piece.
