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Artist’s Statement 03/07
Fold
In this 2007 series of folded photographed constructions, the artist obsessively examines the beauty and structure of folded paper. Through digital photography the artist transforms small paper works into built environments of ambiguous scale. The photographic images, reduced to contact sheets, are then again folded and photographed. These second generation increasingly-pixelated images further push the ambiguity of scale and image. For presentation, these images are then again folded accordion-style into boxes returning to their sculptural origins. These new constructions are then photographed. Each generation is represented by an original source photograph, the accordion box, a photograph of the box. Nine generations are born; eight degrees of separation evolve. Commercial advertising provides the palette. Use of commercial material in the construction references the omnipresence of advertising in the modern urban environment.
In 2003 the artist explored the act of twisting paper which culminated in a student show called Twist Ties. Little by little an environment of exploration was created. Objects on the wall included braids, twirls, two-ended twirls, tubes, knotted tubes, rolls, ties, and bundles. Added to these were two sculptures of paper rolls with tonal-change corking. A number of drawings about the objects were also included in the display. Although the conceptual basis for the pieces was to represent twisting relationships, the works and process pursued another direction. Childhood activities of braiding, corking, rug making, gift wrapping, party decorating intervened. Pinning the objects to the wall seemed to reference botanical collections.
In the new series, the artist returns to this avenue of artistic exploration but this time abandons the physical object for the digital photographic image.