New unit: Sampling

I'm excited to be starting the unit as I didn't do as well as I hoped in the last, 'origins'. For this unit i'm in fashion which is a textile world I've really been looking forward to giving a try. 
When I found out our project brief was 'data', my initial reaction was how it was such a broad theme which is good but can also be quite daunting. The first things that came to mind was graphs and tables, stereotypical   things you'd relate to data. However it wasn't until our first afternoon session in the studio when Nigel showed us a beautiful part of a tree that had been cut to expose it's hundreds of years of rings, that it became clear that data could quite literally be anything. 

We had 30 minutes using our opposite drawing hand (my left), a piece of A1 paper and a sharp pencil to draw the 200 rings of a tree trunk - 3mm spacing between the lines. I absolutely loved the outcome of this task as it created such beautiful unexpected lines that wobbled in places making it look really organic. I managed to reach 79 rings.