After working on various abstract textile designs, I started thinking about colours that could be related to free speech. Continuing with terrorism as my main theme, I started thinking about peoples responses to such acts; how people 'retaliate'. People's responses to the Charlie Hebdo case was to illustrate; bigger, bolder comics with the pencil as the leading symbol of free speech. Colour-wise this was quite uninspiring so I thought of other ways people respond to death and such situations. Normally in the form of flowers, for example the poppies after the war in crimson red, and laying bouquets at graves. The physical 'free' response to such acts seems to be colour and expression. So as a contrast, I have decided to go with bold colours as my palette, not focusing on one colour in particular. On the other hand, the colour of peace in many religions is white, so mixing the use of the pure white against the abstract bright colour markings could work really well. Literally the clash of terrorism and free speech, of the fight of religion being good against bad.
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