In textiles, we were set a brief to explore the concepts of architecture and create a material that reflects the colours, shapes and feelings that receive from architecture.
As i travel a lot, i first thought of the journey which people go through when on long distance trips. Train stations are a great piece of engineering and architecture, which houses an even more impressive sight, the trains.
The features that specifically strike me in a train station is the curves and arches that surround window frames, and also the sheer amount of brick and steel that is used to produce this massive building. I like the rugged feel of being shielded, but very much still in the elements.
I tried to research artists that use train tickets and could not really find any, but i came across a local train station in Japan, Nankai Namba Station, who's employees have spent three months reconstructing four pieces of famous art works entirely of you used train tickets.
http://www.roadsidescholar.com/2007/10/05/recycled-train-ticket-masterpieces/
Nick Sayers used recycled materials and constructs spheres and shelters. he used materials such as train tickets, playing cards, tape measures, bicycle wheels and coffee stirrers. i particularly like the sphere made from plastic bottles, the way the lighting defuses from dark to light and somehow still able to see the outlines of each individual bottle.
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