Manchester's Witworth Cotton event.

This event was an exhibition opening party to celebrate COTTON : Global Threads. The event was very relaxed with a DJ 'spinning tunes and cotton' as you walked round the exhibition. You were also able to create your own key ring using cotton scraps, as well as up-cycling clothes hangers, giving them your own touch.

The current exibition is telling a story of the production, consumpsion and trade of cotton foucusing on west africa, with historic touches on economics, slavery, fashion and popular culture.

Anne Wilson 

For this exhibition, Anne Wilson produced a beautiful weave based on the warping actions requited to produce a woven cloth, where it involves repetitive movements where the action itself becomes both a textile and a soft machine. The pattern and colour in the weave reminded me of african tribal patterns and I really liked the flow of how the colours transformed from one to the next. 

Aboubakar Fofana

Aboubakar Fofana uses natural dyes and organic fibres in his exhibition known as Les Arbres a Bleus, focusing on the indigo plant creating an wide range of blues from pale sky blue to midnight. Here the scluptures represent the connection between heaven and earth and a symbolic forest and the 'fruits' scattered on the ground represent abundance and generosity of nature. He looks at how no tree is ever the same payin particular attention to the fact that no sclupture created is the same. Although initially I found this exhibition odd, I think that the purpose behind it makes alot of sense and is very symbolic and interesting, and the rich organic blues created are so rich and fascinating. 

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