Desire Paths

 

A desire path can be a path created as a consequence of foot or bicycle traffic. The path usually represents the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination. The width of the path and its erosion are indicators of the amount of use the path receives. Desire paths emerge as shortcuts where constructed ways take a circuitous route, or have gaps, or are lacking entirely - from the Wikipedia page

I think these paths would make a lovely metaphor for the way AW lived his life. He always had clear destinations but went about it in his own way. Even though he set out alone, people eventually began to follow his desire paths and now AW's legacy is ingrained in paths across the country.

I found all these images in this forum : www.reddit.com/r/DesirePath/ 

More Techniques + Materials Inspiration

Scrolling through the internet and came across these, not all of the artists/makers tagged their work so I guess they want to stay anonymous, I will link to respective blogs and instagrams.

Ifices I like the surprising materials - a fabric cement block and ceramics seemingly crumpling into themselves. It's surprising and looks like something I want to touch and play with.

Look at it... I love how with the frames weavings become more 3-dimensional, more obstructive. Yeah. I dig this a lot.

DGTRF

What is that weird thing? I don't know. The paintings are all so spare and weird, it's great.

Caption says:

Testable Predictions at Carl & Sloan

Amy Bernstein, Perry Doane, Michelle Liccardo

http://www.carlsloan.com/

“Hot Potato”
 Ben Gocker

It's in New York so I'll never see this in real life but it my god........................ I want to live this life.

I'm also making a (mental) note about curation for these pieces, how they've used and interrupted space. Que me gusta. 

Alexandra Kehayoglou

Alexandra Kehayoglou is an Argentinien wool rug artist. I looked at her because I was trying to find ways people have portrayed landscape through 3-D forms, how do you communicate something on such a different scale? Alexandra uses textiles to recreate the grass of rolling hills, it works so well and is something I'll definitely take inspiration from. I have used rug techniques before, in weaving and on 3-D objects. Her work is very tactile and inviting, using predominantly natural colours and forms - although the landscapes are idealised.

Tove Jansson

I love Tove Jansson. It was suggested to me that I research her work due to the elements of nature in it that relate to AW.

 

The Moomin troll series are my favourites, they're so witty and charming. Jansson makes great use of line in her pen drawings - similar to AW - creating texture and depth with the density of pen strokes. I love it when she combines this with block colour like in the above illustrations.

She also greatly appeals to my love for kitsch. Oh to make wonderfully ugly things. I actually didn't like Moomins when I was a child, I thought they were quite creepy and unsettling. 

Also, her website has a wonderful section showing the island she spent so much time on with some great photos. :^)