I didn’t think the museum would interest me and the engines
and machinery would be quite dull, but I tried to keep an open mind. I saw the impressive tour of the textile
machines, we were shown all the steps involved in transforming the cotton plant
into cloth, they were incredibly dangerous machines and there were lots of injuries
and deaths because of them.
I was drawn to the coat made of thistledown made by Adrian Bannon
on display in the textile gallery. Hundreds of dandelion seeds held together
almost magically, the delicate coat is suspended with fine string like its
floating in mid air. I thought the coat
was such a contrast to all the industrial machinery as it was made from an
entirely natural, unprocessed material.
The exhibition I was inspired by the most was the air and
space gallery, and the large aircraft engines. For my project I had been
looking at playground structures and I realised there was a similarity to the
intricate engines with their twisting pipes and tubes. I had been working with bright primary
colours and felt inspired by the similar shapes in chrome and metal. The engines looked like they had been put
together by an artist rather than an engineer.
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