Looking from a knew perspective

I took the negative image of the climbing ants and tried imagine the spaces btween the ants as the solid blocks of colour and discard the outline of the actual ants. I stitched these solid blocks into a canvas. I thought the result was quite nice but it was a labourous task as I had to fill in the solids by stitching one stitch at at a time. If any white was showing throught the affect would be ruined so it took a while to fill it all in.

After stitching the piece I found that the back of thhe canvas was also interesting looking. The solid black areas are like loads of tiny black ants crowded together perhaps feeding on a sticky swwet patchs left behind after food. When so many ants are so close to gether you can't distinguish where one ant starts and another finishs, instead they appear to be a moving black blotch.

The loos black strands of thread resemble the lines of ants going from one food source to another.