I wanted to incorporate the printing method into my project. I thought printing would be suiting to my project seeing as writing and printing have always had a strong connection. I used these pages that I wrote with my quill as a starting point for my prints;

Using the photocopier I blew up sections of my handwriting;

and used these to make woodcuts;

This was just an experiment as I wanted to print onto sheets of felt that I made. However I was unsure if the felt would take the ink, so I only made a small wood cut to start. 

One of the many sheets of felt that I made ^^

I printed these woodcuts onto the felt, which took up the ink perfectly;

..So I went on to make more. I wanted to use colour for the rest. It had been pointed out to me that my project was very monochromatic, which was true. I carved some more woodcuts;

A quote taken from 'Sailing to Byzantium' by Yeats.

A quote from Hamlet by Shakespeare.

I used these woodcuts to print onto the pieces of felt I had made. I rather detested how these turned out but they took some time so up they go;

I also experimented with monoprint. These were more gestural;

I'd been looking at the artist Jackson Pollock. I loved the freeness and expressiveness within in his work;

I had been told by my tutors to look more towards the gestural aspect of my handwriting. So inspired by Pollock's approach, I began squirting dye onto sheets of paper as though I was writing. I started off using long sheets of kitchen roll but the absorbency was too great. The ground was also wet, which didn't help. 

So I moved onto working on old bed sheets;

...But before I could finish this, the rain came so I had to park it and save it for another day. Though I have moved on to better things, I will hopefully revisit this using larger sheets and more colours.

I was doing all these out in the open, beneath the trees. When I looked above my head, the movement and motion of the entangled branches was similar the scraggly lines on the sheets infront of me;

From the start of this project, I've been yearning to write on food. However I must admit I didn't go too wild, I will come back to this when the opportunity arises.

Bread;

Fruit, first the banana;

then the orange;

and finally, the rotten tomato;

One day I came across a lonely projector sitting in the middle of the room so I decided to have a mess around with it. To start, I wrote some lines on some sheets of  assitate paper. I projected them in the darkness against the walls of my studio;

I was enjoying this so I kept going. I moved to projecting onto the ceiling because I had more space. I began layering the sheets of writing, seeing how much different patterns I could create;

Some resulting patterns;

I then took some close-up photographs of the sheets of writing sitting on the projector;

I liked how these came out. They reminded me very much of this work by Ian Charlesworth which was done utilizing resin on perspex;