Paper Sculptures & Reliefs
2016 - 2017
Sculptures and reliefs made of printed paper. Prints on paper are crumpled, folded, torn, glued. The categories we normally use when we make or view art fail. Is this a "print" or a "sculpture"? Sculpture is normally conceived as physically substantive, durable; these are as fragile as – a piece of paper. The imagery is primarily photographic but is not being treated with the reverence photographs are normally accorded; the photographic images are not framed, mounted, or even readable. The mimetic quality of the imagery is largely lost, but occasionally peeps through. The imagery, crumpled and folded, collapses to pure color and form, almost absent any "content". Or does it rise to those? How do we see our world? How do we process what we see? If we stop thinking and just look, does it not all become color and form? And whether we understand it or not, can we see it as, simply, beautiful?
