Samples 2015: Week 18, The Sun

Yellow scrims embellished onto orange wool-viscose felt from the back.

 

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From this article in the Saturday Guardian 02/05/15:

“England faces major rise in record hot years due to climate change say scientists. Increased effects of climate change enable scientists to predict localised changes in weather, such as at least a 13-fold increase in record hot years in England.”

Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

Sample design
I wanted a more interesting sun! Thinking of swirling heat, coronal mass ejections, led to the idea of fine loops of thread emerging from a disc shape.