In my tutorial I had the opportunity to discuss all my ideas, and explain the three different strands of investigation I have developed. We decided that the knitting idea wasn't viable because of how long it would take to do, so I have decided to set that aside for now (with the hope to return to it one day). It was suggested that I need to investigate further into the material connotations of fishing wire and wrap an object that has a really strong, perhaps poignant or dark, association to the material. We talked about Cornelia Parker being an artist who does this a lot in her work, paying great attention to the poetic significance of each material and object she includes. I have been researching Parker's work already and am very much looking forward to her talk in February, where I hope I will get to hear about her intentions in a little more depth. It was also suggested I look at Joseph Beuys' 'Diverging Critiques' book which discusses the mythology he created around the materials he used.
After the tutorial, my aim for taking my experiments further is to make lists and mind-maps of the material connotations of fishing line, research Joseph Beuys and Cornelia Parker, and taking my work into an installation room so that I have the space to develop the yarn/fishing wire idea.
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