I still have the artist statement for this one!!
"With this project, I
utilise the properties of high-shrinkage pulps to explore the theme of growth
and maturation of ideas.
In creating my piece,
I tried to minimize my use of materials—mainly hemp+abaca and flax+abaca pulps,
and a bit of pigmented pulp--, and broke it down to simple
structures—free-formed cylinders.
The suggestion of
maturity comes in the contrasts between the air-dried structures, and the
pressed sheet structures. The “mature”
structures are hardened, opaque, and ragged, whereas the structures that have
been pressed (representing “immaturity”), are translucent, clean cut, and
flexible. There is a literal
interpretation to be taken in the description of materials to describe these
metaphorical ideas—i.e. immature thoughts are open to flexibility, fresh and
clean, where as matured thoughts are more condensed, well crafted, and have
developed given time."
I wanted to mimic the look of mold, or other surface spreading organisms (others have mention sea anemone and plants, etc.) because it suits the idea of growth, and potentially the installation can grow and mass in numbers and area.
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| I tried considering other presentations of this work. This one is in a corner and by a window... |
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