When thinking about how I could change people's views on stains and wear in textiles I thought about how I could refer to nature. I considered how in a woodland the surfaces gradually become consumed with mould and fungus and rot away. A lot of the time these elements of nature are seen as undesirable but they are beautiful. Today I went out with my camera into the woodland and documented some of these things. Diseased trees, fungus, lichen anything that has consumed a surface. One particular fungus (see above) almost looked like velvet. I want to try use this imagery in my textiles to try and get people to appreciate how a surface can be consumed with traces of life just like in nature and promote the idea of building up a surface over time to prevent it from being simply thrown away.
