Rocks and Realisation

After some deliberation I have decided that the print design that I sent to be exposed on a silk screen is actually quite boring and isn't saying exactly what I want it to say. I think it is too literal for my project. Although I would like to portray nature, I would not like to use such a literal floral pattern after all. I am glad, however, to have been through the print process once more. My memory of the processes have been refreshed and I remembered how much I enjoy working in the print room. As well asm this, if I hadn't been through this process I would not have realised that my print design was actually so boring.

After packing up my things in the print room, I went back to the repeat pattern that I created yesterday using one of my primary photographs of the colourful rock from Manchester Museum. I took a few more of my photographs of rocks and created some more repeat patterns from them. Here are my initial creations:

The following three images are my favourite of my experiments. I think that although they are mechanically produced and everyone has seen this way of producing repeat patterns before, they still hold an element of natural form within the image. The colours are not exactly what I am looking for, but I can change that easily once I have decided on a design to develop.