I was very frustrated with the flower motif from the tile. I was very intent on getting something out of it and in retrospect I don't quite know why. This page is me making a last effort at it, eventually deciding that it didn't fit - visually or thematically - alongside any of my previous developed ideas, and dropping it. It is only extremely tangentially related to anything in my brief. I wrote: 'Too feminine in a childish sense. Does not fit the brief - much too folkloric, too natural, too cozy. Drop this.'
Even though I had given up on the flower tile specifically, I wanted to see if there was still anything to extrapolate from the rest of the tile photograph. I chopped it into strips and wove it back together to try and get a slightly misshapen version of it that I could repeat, continued on pages 43 and 44.
Pages 43 & 44 is the point at which I decided to drop all the tiles completely. My notes for this page say: 'I started by tracing the weaving I made of the tiles. I wanted to make the photo appear splintered/disjointed, but without using irregular lines, i.e. standard weaving pattern, up and down straight parallel lines, thus maintaining standard tile, brick formation. I kept the diagonal tiles in the bottom because I felt the irregularity would make the design more distinct/visually interesting. Then I took a photo of the tracing and pulled it up in digital drawing software and went over it with a straight line tool. I erased the vertical lines so I could repeat the pattern horizontally. Out of curiosity I repeated the horizontal pattern on top of itself. I eye-dropped the colours from the reference photo and filled in the colours according to the order in the original photo.'
I thought very briefly about repeating it downwards on a -stripe - similar to the iconic Adidas tri-stripe - but at that point I was already feeling very bored with it. I already had the brick design, and felt that doing something else very similar would be redundant, so I dropped it, although I decided to keep some of the colours because they definitely related to some other designs and included tones I was already working with.