Introducing textiles into this project is something I really wanted to make work. I decided to used threads in a weaving pattern to be the melodies and intertwining sounds.

Using bright colours I then went on to create a textiles sculpture.

The square base is modelled around a record turn table and is made out of wood. The rest is a combination of satins, cotton calico in various colours, numerous ribbons, gutermann embroidery threads and different beads (faux pearls, gems...) and the use of toy stuffing and cardboard to make the embroidered motifs.

The centre of this sculpture is based on charcoal drawings I produced from the photos of my saxophone (previously posted). I sculpted it by hand from a block of wet plant oasis used in flower arranging. It is based on the trumpet shape of the end of a saxophone. The ribboned wires and embroidered ends represent the movement of the sound.

I individually painted small squares of foamboard which I cut using a sharp knive to make the towers of turquoise, pink and orange in the corners which represent the beats in the music. The small embroidered oyster-looking pieces standing in the corners also are based on the shape of a saxophone key and the beads layed underneath represent the explosion-like sound that occurs in Jools Holland's album- Swinging the Blues and Dancing the Ska.