| SEA SHIFT
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| I am looking at how, in the folded structure, I can strengthen paper - especially if I want to make a hung book. It is interesting to note that whereas I need to fold paper to safely hang it, when I encapsulate paper within polyester pockets and heat laminate it, I can hang a single skin. I also found that I could create translucent textural effects by crumpling tissue and encapsulating it . In Sea Shift an organic inner layer is trapped within a plastic 'shell', which protects the fragile paper layer. This plastic shell is deceptively delicate, fragile, even beautiful, despite its mundane origin. |
288cm x 36cm Abaca paper tissue - heat laminated between Polyester pockets, then laser cut. |
Structure: Book is translucent, with cut words, caught in a web of lines. It is suspended in the air from above, appears fragile, and yet is fairly indestructible. The book is very light and can be attached using invisible plastic thread, and will hang freely, vertically. It can either be hung, or closed, or part closed, in a showcase. |
Open, each word can be read, while closed an interesting thing happens. Part of every one of the 12 pages can be seen. Layers of water-lines cross and interweave, suggesting the deep, ever shifting sea. |
‘ ‘Sea Web’ was exhibited in the ‘Shakespeare Now’ exhibition at the Hornby Library, Liverpool in June 2016. |
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