Expo - First panel

I have finished the first panel and immediately the decision on whether to do a series of panels or a book was made: it looks fantastic with picture lighting anything from 1-5m away, so it will be panels.

Not sure about the hat tassle wrapped round the face. One of the ideas for 'evil' was to have a snake wrapped round the head, so the idea was to have an equivalent, benign object on the 'good' panel which can juxtapose with the snake

I have saturated the photo to try to show the shadow better. The real colour is this:-

Technically, the weaving is pretty much perfect (pleasant change!), the text stands out very well and the relief is excellent - the shadows from top lighting even show the face details, but are not visible in the photo.

 Using the central panel in a huck with fewer interlacements worked perfectly to provide the movement needed to follow the form but minimise draw in on the rest of the panel. It wasn't sure about using vertical stripes with the risk of distortion, but I have managed to keep it all parallel with some judicious use of the steam iron.






Three other 'variations' on faces which I have mocked up with cloth in the vacuum bag:-.

Face 3: Twin/conjoined heads.

Face 2: The presence of the fragment separated from the rest of the face makes the deformity particularly effective.

Face4: Using one mask, I have mocked up a Medusa head with snakes as hair (using thick corded rope under the cloth) 



One option is to have a double-width central panel by weaving  panel longer and using it turned 90 degrees. The text will run top and bottom and it will allow me to write the rest of the text in one line "Qui est la plus belle au pays ?"

If I do this, I will weave it in two weft colours so when turned, it will be one colour on the left half and the other on the right half.


The pair of conjoined heads would work well in that orientation with one head having the snake-hair.......the deformed face could be added too.