For the BFA show, I’m doing a book installation.
Over the course of last semester and this semester, I’ve been making large scale paper sheets at the Fresh Press studio. Each sheet is 18 x 24 inches and is made from recycled cotton – bedsheets, loads of my old work – basically the paper is made from all recycled / sustainable material. My plan is to bind each sheet and create a large scale collage book.
The installation part has to do with the environment in which I present the book. Along with my giant paper sheet making, I’ve also been experimenting and making paper “paper paintings” by using different colored pulp to create images. I’ve been painting on a lot of my old ‘gone wrong’ photographs to create mini 4 x 6-inch textured colored paintings. Together I wanted to great a mobile effect over the book. Ideally, it’d be the book on a pedestal in the of the installation. The painted photographs + paper images would create a circle around it, thus you have to walk into the environment and be immersed into my brainchild to “read” the book.
I’ve also been making loads of other, smaller imaged based zines, and depending on space of pedestal I’d like to display a few as well.
Kind of like creating a little reading nook world for reading zines + hand made books.