Paper cuts
My first week in the studio is spent sun-bleaching paper. My pickings from the tip include a stack of red printing paper, a roll of newsprint paper and several pieces of card. I am keen to explore paper extensively, especially since it changes colour so rapidly in the sun compared to fabric, plastic and other materials.
Paper airplanes, flip photo albums, multi photo frames, an open book, stencils from household objects – these are some of the objects I experiment with.
I decide to leave them outside over night to avoid handling them more often than necessary. Naturally, it rains for the first time since I’ve been here leaving a sorry looking display of limp, sodden pulp for me to return to the next morning. I repeat everything I’ve done and brace myself for another stretch of obscenely hot afternoons.
