I decided to depict
the sleep cycle in bobbin lace and silk paper as they seemed appropriate media
to use. I thought the silk paper would represent the unconscious dreamlike
state of sleeping while the random lines of the bobbin lace show the way the mind
flits from idea to idea during the dream stage of sleep. I based the work on a typical
graph of the human sleep cycle, which I copied in a coarse thread. I made rectangular
areas of random bobbin lace to represent each of the dream phases and combined
them with the thread graph. The silk paper was worked round all of them to
represent the unconscious state from which they emerge and to act as a
practical binder to keep them all in place. The final piece is an ethereal dreamlike
hanging that wafts gently in the breeze.
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