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Molly Tufnell

Molly Tufnell

'Stitches the Universe'

Contemporary Artist & Teacher

2003 STITCHING UNITS: DENSITY MAP IIII

Duration of this moving image work is 28 mins 14 secs
N.B.Preferably to be viewed as a vidio projection
 
Here the humble dot has been substituted for a stitch as a means of indicating and abstracting, the essence of the process and rhythms that occur whilst stitching.
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When you stitch you repeat over and over, sometimes unpicking as well. Here I have substituted a dot and I have allowed this single unit to build into something complex using the Fibonacci principle to dictate the timing of the introduction and disappearance of each dot. The dots have been separated into blocks of approximately twenty-five and the timing of the appearance/disappearance of each dot within a block is self-similar.

N.B. Density maps are just one of nature’s patterns and may be seen for example, in the stars at night, in a flock of birds massed in flight, or perhaps with X-ray diffraction which shows the electron clusters surrounding an atom. The Fibonacci sequence occurs by adding two adjacent numbers to form the next higher number in a sequence and is found throughout the natural world.
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Thoughts and challenges....
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More thoughts around the ideas....
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Passage of time.....
Sketchbook workings recording the process of making this work....
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Thoughts and ideas and reading....
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Stitching and unpicking....

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