BA Route (an investigation throught drawing)

As I mentioned in a previous blog I can choose BA or BSc as my degree title. I have always wanted my degree to be BA, so for me there wasn’t much of a choice as I already knew. For the BA brief I have to write a research question in which I will answer by drawing, and I also need to support this work with a five hundred word statement.
I am going to start mind mapping some ideas for this task. I already have my question proposal, which could change completely or just develop. My question is ‘What patterns and textures can be observed on fabrics under close inspection and magnification?’ I am interested in what fabric textures look like up close. It came to my attention that there are so many patterns and textures that are ignored or simple not seen because they are so small; I want to draw attention to these textures. The way I am going to go about this is to firstly take some high quality photographs as close up as possible. The first way I can think of doing this, is by using the micro lens on a high quality camera that I can borrow from the University, this will allow me to take some photographs getting an effective zoom in. The other thing I could do which was suggested to me by a tutor is, in Manchester there is rumoured to be a place that allows people to take pictures of things under a microscope. Whether this is still available to me I don’t know, but I intend to find out, and if it does exist I will be going along to get my photographs.
When I have my photographs my next step will be to draw them. I can’t say what media I will be using until I see the images or what drawing style I will take, but I do know that I would like to closely observe the textures and try to interpret them.