into time.
into space.
reflections from acb:
Reflecting upon the memory of a fold, the absence/presence of a cut and the movement of surfaces propelled me into further investigations today. I started and ended with a question: How do you fold space?
Fold alludes to an action and introduces time. Folding does not excavate space, but by doing so, the material (in this case, paper) bends over upon itself, which suggests what was before while at the same time creating a new space inbetween itself.
I started to work with a blank roll of paper and the moveable objects around me in the studio: a ball, two folding chairs, a table on wheels and three different sized clothing racks (also on wheels).
I did not want to fix the material, but rather insinuate the possibility of movement; movement of the material and the objects. I draped. The action of draping the material reinforced the relationship between the material and the object. By covering and hanging off of the objects, the material introduced another sense of weight and created a new form. These forms placed upon an open stage invite change, but change only happens when movement occurs, and movement can only occur if it is provoked by an outside force, the presence of a viewer.
reflections from kb:
I extracted the leaves of a book from their bound form, pulling them apart from their shared centre fold. I then folded each sheet in a different way and placed them in standing formation on the floor. Un-folding the book and re-folding the leaves transformed the blank pages into an architecture. The absence of text and image accentuates the spatial quality and accentuates difference- sameness, shadow-light, front-back, hidden-revealed, collective-independent. Even in this form the leaves still have connection to each other and belong to each other.
It reminds me of the card game SET, which is about finding cards that form a set: a set being that the properties of colour, number, shape and filling have to be either all the same or all different.
I revisit the days spent here, days of: emptying, movement, page/frame, mapping, navigation, material, open space, and still today the pages remain blank.
Finding:
The viewer performs the book.
There is a possibility, openness and potential in the blank page.
