This week we did an introduction to textiles as an art form and whilst searching the internet for interesting contemporary textile artists, I came across a fantastic designer called Jacopo Rosati, who makes all sorts of images, characters and faces using fuzzy felt. Inspired by this, the group took profile photographs of each other and then chose four colours of felt to create them out of. I find people often don't like the idea of doing self-portraits, it's too personal, so this was a good way of capturing the outline shape of their faces, so that they were still recognisable, but without too much intrusive detail. I think as a collection, they look particularly effective.
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