We’ve been making pastel drawings for a while now. We wondered how we could bring the drawing and the sculpture together. Making our own drawing paper seemed a start.
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there’s tooth and then there’s texture
Playing up nothing: Making holes out of papers
We cast with blue jean cotton rag paper filling the spaces between the islands of plywood. The garden store pebbles added ripples of texture.
We like negative space, so we cast some. We laid down some odd shaped plywood pieces and filled in the space around them with wet sheets of lightly pressed cotton paper. The pebbles were pressed in for texture.
We call this series of objects “holed’ers” because the pieces were initially, at least, holed by positive shapes.
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