I started the cuts for the final outcomes with the Garrotte.
Immediately I struggled. I'd been trying to work on developing my cutting skills and the level of detail in my prints, and then was faced with making a single object, with not much variation in texture, seem detailed and interesting.
Going from the idea of floating images, to wanting to avoid floating images, to figuring out a setting / background, to going back to floating images again had me feeling a bit lost.
I attempted this cut twice before I figured it really wasn't working. The line work wasn't clean, the mark making wasn't relevant, and overall it looked boring as hell.
I realised that I was overcomplicating it. Instead of just cutting the object, I was trying to figure out ways of making it more 'interesting' and wasn't actually considering the textures that I could work with.
I decided to take a break from it and move on to something different.
I'm started to worry that the final outcomes aren't going to be the brilliant cuts I've been thinking they could be....
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