Started looking at dream catchers. All imagery for mood board was orange and blue for some reason. I kept being told to look into why this was as if it had some great meaning but it didn't in the end. I think that really confused me I shouldn't have started my work with a mood board.

I jumped straight into drawing thinking that my drawing was successful and it was definitely enjoyable. But what can you draw from dream catchers? Apparently just feathers.
 I couldn't draw the web with any interesting outcome so I used shadow and photographs to achieve the desired effect. After this I knew I wanted to work with shadow. I had been obsessed for a long while before this project and this seemed like a perfect opportunity to use it.
 However, it was what type of shadows to document was the main problem. I was stuck by a very narrow visual inspiration. I was using this fabric because it was personal to me, an old skirt, which is the way traditional dream catchers were made.

This had something in it but I was blind to what it was.
 Now after a heavy tutorial with a new voice, I was asked to go back to the beginning an ask myself what it is about dream catchers I actually liked.

1) They protect you from something invisible and and psychological i.e. dreams
2) They use personal items so that they will work for that specific culture or even individual.

I went on to recording dreams through abstract drawing to keep my privacy, and trapping these images in a 'web', using netting.
The imagery here is moving away from dreams and into memories.

I definitely use threads and stitches as a tool to achieve my visual goals, rather than exploring the limits of the thread or stitch itself.