I have also been exploring creating 3d works using repetitive gestures of rolling up/ folding sections of magazines. I was interested in the results of continuous actions and my idea was to take the works as far as I could physically, almost like the ink drawings where the paper determined the end of the art work but instead here the size and managability of the piece would determine it’s end point.
One work I have been creating is made by ripping a4 sheets out of a magazine and folding them up into long rectangles and then winding them round each other again and again, I have been photographing the process all the way along and am intending to use all of the images to create a stop motion of the experience.. almost like a nature documentary where they speed up the plants growth so you can see a massive progression in a really short space of time.
From creating this magazine work I started to experiment with cutting the rectangle up into little sections and turning them over, exploring their potentials.. this in turn gave me fresh ideas for works and experiences. I began to consider the possibility of using the cross sections of the magazines to cover an entire wall. I will update the concepts and physical manifestation of this idea as it develops.
Alongside making these works I have been continuing to write my dissertation and the ideas and concepts on process art that I have been reading about have largely informed new thoughts and ideas. For instance the idea of decommodification is very interesting, the idea of rejecting the very thing that you as an artist are setting out to create.. or at least I thought that was what an artist was meant to create. From pondering the potentials of decommodification I have become more and more interested in ways of working that value the experience and process over the end product.
