I recorded general movements that my ants made when taken out of the ant farm and planned to stitch the patterns onto canvases i made using wood and a bed sheet. I used these materials instead of buying one as I thought it was more suitable as it looks more natural and the ants build everything from scratch. I used hand stitching as the medium as its a time consuming thing that must be done one stitch at a time.
After I finished the piece I noticed that the back of the canvas looked maybe more interesting than the front. I could see the black thread as food sources and the coloured thread as the paths and alternative routs that the ants could have taken to get to them. The dotted stitching is like the phermone trails that the ants leave behind them so as to remember the best route to get to the food.
I made another few canvases and experimented with different ways to represent the ants with the thread. In this one each stitch represents an ant. I had noted that when ants come to an obstacle when following in a line they would usually split from thir line for a momnt to make their way around the obstacle before rejoining to one single line again, rather than climbing over the obstacle.
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