{"id":1178,"date":"2023-11-14T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:43:50","slug":"desire-path-textile-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"Desire path textile experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I want to start this post by saying that I am really pleased with how these came out, largely because the direction of the pieces literally flipped through my making journey. I wasn’t precious about my original idea and I responded to the piece(s) as they evolved through the making journey.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I set out with the intention of interpreting my original desire path photographs using a combination of textiles, including the wool I foraged during my visit to YSP. I was using embroidery and sewing threads as well as the wool, stitched onto sheets of felt.<\/span><\/div>\n

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As I worked on the pieces, I became progressively more unhappy. They seemed uptight, polite and uninspired to me. <\/span><\/div>\n

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At a certain point in making the largest piece (to be honest I cant quite remember but I think it was tying off threads), I turned it over and really noticed the “back”. <\/span><\/div>\n

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I much preferred it! It looked like a confident, loose and energetic thread sketch of the photograph. <\/span><\/div>\n

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As I thought on why it worked for me, I realised that it represented qualities, like collaborative chaos and anarchy, that are inherent to the creation of desire paths. The backs are uncontrived, emergent and wild. <\/span><\/div>\n

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In this way, the “backs” illustrate the photographs so much more beautifully than the front ever did, or could. <\/span><\/div>\n

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And so now they are the front.<\/span><\/div>\n

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