The first 2 and a half weeks of the project.

I started with my initial thought which was to look at the buildings of Limerick. I took some photos, and drew some of the buildings that interested me. As i was taking photots i noticed a door that i found interesting. It was the top window of the door that caught my eye. I drew that and i then drew others from different doors. I looked at doors then, and their features such as the door handles and the letter boxes. I drew some of these but i noticed, as i was drawing, the cracks in the door and on the walls. I took photos of these cracks. I looked at all different kinds of walls, made of brick, stone and concrete. I drew tthe lines of the cracks in my sketchbook. I began researching artists and designers including Christo and Jeanne-Claude who are famous for wrapping buildings, monuments and landscapes, Freddie Robins who knitted the homes of women who committed crims, Issey Miyake who was inspired by architecture to create his 'fashion pieces', Sheila Hicks who hung her textile works off of a building and Kano Takao who works with clay and sand. I was inspired by Takao's clay work, "Soul searching on the planet earth" and "The night I was born again" so i began to look at bricks. sones and rubble, which links back to my previous interest in the walls. I drew some pieces of broken brick and stones. I took photos of these also and i noticed how beautiful the colours where. I tried to show these colours in my sketchbook by using oil pastels. I also did some rubbings from the stones. I wasnt sure what to do next so I looked back through my sketchbook and noticed the photo i had taken of the moss on the wall. I thought this looked interesting so i began to take more photos of moss on the walls and also on the trees. I found that the bark on the tree was cracked, like the walls. Plus, the moss is almost wrapping the tree which refers back to the research i did on Christo and Jeanne-Claude. I found some artists and designers who work with and are inspired by moss including Hector Hernandez who made a fashion garment portraying womens underwear out of spanish moss and Tara Baoth Mooney who made a fashion coller out of green moss. I plan to look at the bricks and stones again in colour, form and tone using more mediums to investigate it properly and also to do more research on moss and the bark of the tree.