Age - Inspiration - Pangaea

According to Wikipedia, Pangaea was a supercontinent which existed about 250 million years ago before the component continents were separated into the current configuration.  Geologists discovered that the geological structures of the rocks in South West Africa and South East Brazil were distinctively identical and the age of the rocks at these two areas was the same.  This distinctive rock strata shared by the two land masses suggests that these two areas were once joined together.

It was this aspect of AGE that I decided to explore and I used this image as my original design source.

With the inspiration decided - and with a desire to use what I already have – I found this piece of painted bondaweb which reminds me so much of rock strata – notice the blue “precious metals” in the rocks also.

However, this was not to be where I ended up although I will probably still develop this fabric into a finished piece.  I went on to explore fault lines in rock formations and these became the basis of my finished piece of work.  This exploration threw up many exciting ideas and I can see this become the start of a body of work entitled “Fault Lines”. 

However, returning to the theme of AGE I looked at recycling some old items of clothing  – starting with my son’s shirts (with his permission, of course).  These were dyed in a variety of yellows and blues, resulting in a variety of greens and initially used to make a quilt.  The remaining pieces were used for exploratory work for this project – and here it is …..

You will see that although we have a fault line, these rocks have not started to slip yet!  This set my mind racing – I think my next piece will use a zip as the fault line and, of course, it will be offset.