Blanketed Feelings Explained and Annotations

While looking at my first artist Tadeusz Machowski, I ended up looking at other pieces of his work and in a few of his pieces it looks like he has painted on fabric so I decided to do this and create an installation which would lead into my second artist Joseph Carnell who is an installation artist and I decided to take photos showing the process and my first completed installation.

 To create this piece I painted the fabric in various colours of acrylic and ink similar to Machowski relating them to emotions that I was feeling around the time of when I was doing this piece. After it was dry, I then applied bleach to let all the colours run into each other to naturally mix the colour similar to how Machowski does it on paper and let the excess colour run off onto some paper I had placed underneath the blanket to create another piece in itself.

 I also made sure to cover the floor in paper to make sure that my area was clean afterwards and save cleaning a lot of mess as well as trying to create another piece for an idea I had, had while doing my first installation. Using these expressive and natural marks made and recycling old canvases together to make it.

 These are just photos of the blanket in various different angles all of which I later drew in biro pen as I thought that'd be the best method to replicate the texture and thread in the blanket itself. The idea behind this piece is that when you have a mental illness you cover all your emotions and cut yourself off from the world in essence. 

This piece I feel captures that because it a blanket something which is stereotypically seen as comforting, but also by the fact that the blanket has been ripped and destroyed and has been painted all these dark colours to represent the different emotions I was feeling at the time. If I was to do this piece again I'd do it on a white blanket that was also larger as I feel the fact that the blanket is green takes away some of the boldness of some of the colours as it also takes away from the subtlety of the way the bleach made the ink and acrylic run into each other. I'd also want to do it with a larger blanket so I could make it have more of a dramatic effect and be a bigger installation altogether. If I was to try the again I'd also like to try doing it monochromatic and seeing what effect that would get me.