After knitting my jacket I thought I should write up the pattern for it. However this proved more difficult than I thought it would be. I couldn't bring myself to put my pattern into word form. Cowardly or what, but gathering all the information to knit it opened a Pandora's box. Emotions and issues I thought I had dealt with, even from childhood resurfaced again. So off to the library and in a magazine I came across the work of Daniel Eatock. I goggled him and found out that as a graphic student one of his first projects was on identity. He used his finger print, synonymous with identity and put text around the contour lines of his print. This solved my problem, I decided to write up my jacket pattern in this form. I played around with my finger print and blew it up on the copier, then I wrote my pattern around my contour lines quiet comfortably knowing that I would reduce it to finger print size again. This meant that just like in the knitting of the garment all the information contained in the jacket and in the pattern is hidden, protected. In this way, just as we do instinctively, only part of what I want to put on show as my identity will be seen. Since then I have also flipped the text and left the finger print bigger.
Contextually as well as looking at the work of Daniel Eatock, I have been looking at Annette Messagner's and found some of what she said in an interview about her work very interesting and relevant to what I'm doing at the moment.
Taking the fingerprint
Blowing the finger print up on the copier in order to see the contour lines
Writing text around the contour lines
Reducing the text back down to finger print size again
Fabric finger print
This fingerprint is sewn on to leatherette fabric using piping chord. I based it on a sketch of my own finger print
This is a picture of the reverse side of the fabric, with chalk pastel added to show the contour lines, I like this version much better.
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