The Second Sitting

Helen came to my place for another planning session a week later. She had made a couple of versions of the last word, 'out', using the pieced method we had decided upon but wasn't happy with the result. After seeing the ransom note effect of the mock up we had done in Photo Impact - which was really only done to help plan word placement - we started to think about applique - using different fonts for the different words and appliqueing them to a background rectangle. We cut out rectangles with the words roughly sketched on them and laid them out on the floor. We took a photograph of this placement and played with it in Photo Impact. We wanted to see if the swirl of coloured word rectangles gave enough movement if they were laid on a black (or plain) background or if they needed to be on a swirled background. In Photo Impact we painted a rough approximation of the background swirl of colour and overlaid the word rectangles on it. Wahoo! the rough and ready nature of both the swirl and the rectangles helped with the feeling of a person fraying and losing pieces of herself to despair. We decided to work towards a frayed edge applique style and also an unfinished edge quilt.