Lee Thomson

I made a circle today, and it failed in different ways three different times.

1. the bleach doesn't make black threads white, it just made them kind of green

2. the white paint doesn't sit nicely on the black thread, it soaks in

3. even when the white paint has soaked in and dried, it is not waterproof, and it washed out when I tried to rinse off the water soluble stabilizer I'd constructed the feather on

And I could have stopped there, but instead I persisted, and then:

4. the water soluble stabilizer did not rinse out completely

5. which wouldn't matter except when reapplying the white paint that washed out and trying to remove some of the wetness by ironing the circle, the leftover stabilizer kind of crystallized on top, and then

6. when I tried to photograph it anyhow, just for completeness sake, the photo won't email, so I can't even show you the catastrophe that resulted

So. I'm done now.