My response to this week’s Kick-About, inspired by Anni Alber, began by rooting out various off-cuts of fabric I have hanging about, and scanning them. That done, I did a simple thing and began to duplicate and layer this one scan (below) to try and produce some Alber-inspired images.
The detail in the scans meant I was able to work with the actual textures of the fabric, which meant that the surfaces of the images, though digital, remained pleasingly woven and tactile. I introduced some loose repeat patterns; one of the aspects of Alber’s designs I love is the sense of disorder breaking out, of a messing-up of an otherwise more standardised pattern, almost like a glitch.
Red's Kingdom 
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