Rosalind Barker and Katie Hayward
My new collaboration partner is Katie Hayward, we are continuing to work with the outcome of my collaboration with Ruth Payne. Having worried about how I would cope with someone taking my work, I am now worried about how difficult it will be to abstract and develop it in new directions.
The element of peeking attracts us both, lifting, finding elements of the red drawings and found pinhole mark making within the magazine imagery. It’s the spontaneity of the act and unplanned outcome but how can you replicate this in experiments? Lifting, revealing, unwrapping and holes seem pertinent for our play.
Rejecting the idea of creating narratives by deliberately pin holing images we selected to collage heads onto unusual found cardboard boxes and odd packaging. The idea was to create holes through mouths and then fill the voids with expanding foam. We would video the paths of the foam expansion as it hopefully created sculptural forms. The saying about never working with kids and dogs should also include expanding foam; thankfully we were outside when we unleashed the mayhem.
