Obliteration Pile
I
want to create a pile of prints, beginning with the totally flat black
surface of the printing surface (lino), then working into this surface,
eventually resulting in an excavated white surface. People will be able
to take a print from the pile, further dispersing the image; removing it
further from itself.
With
my desire to work with the space the shapes that I will work into the
surface will come from a pencil rubbing of one of the cracks in the
wall. This will result in the crack widening (kind of like a stop-motion
animation) until it engulfs itself entirely and becomes emptiness, or
pure light as Lygia Pape would think of it. I feel the two pieces
definitely relate in the use of the space and the importance of light,
both physically and formally.
My initial idea was to use mirrors to enhance the interactive nature of the piece.
Want
to build a small plinth to raise the pile slightly from the floor (7cm
high: the height of the skirting board). Rubbing or photographic image
beneath the prints, attached to the plinth?
Pieces of Eight Exhibition, Project Space Leeds
Ian Balch's Pile of Paper. Wanted it to be interactive!
Ceal Floyer, Page 11, 083 of 11, 083 (2010)
11, 083 pages of A4 paper, h. 125cm
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_164972_693906_ceal-floyer.jpg
Visiting artist, marbled pile of paper
