New Work Rolling Out

PREVIOUS WORK ALWAYS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME NEW WORK

Returning to a project is perfectly intuitive for me or re-searching.

This project started in 2020 as i was walking to B&Q to buy several rolls of lining paper.

Interesting, but its not a berry so I won’t pick it up. Ah but that’s a mushroom.

These are some of the berries and mushrooms that I collected on my way back from B&Q. I was dropping them into the only bag that I had. Most the berries were robust enough to survive the journey home but I knew that the blackberries would not survive being tossed into the bag with my other shopping. I carried them carefully home in my hand. This was quite difficult as I was carrying a shopping bag containing heavy rolls of paper, the ‘berry bag’, and my phone which I was using to taking pictures. I was also recording thoughts as I walked.

The ‘un rolling’ performance

 

The B&Q Walk Roll stayed with me in the studio for a year or so, until I caught sight of it and started another collaboration.

The printer/scanner, my computer and I collaborate with the 'B&Q Walk Roll' in this performative piece. I am present as the choreographer and the photographer.

 

Various seeds and berries on lining paper, pen

Various seeds and berries on lining paper, tracing paper

 

These are the areas that the scanner deemed important. Why would I ignore this? These scanned images have lost their status as the 'original'. They emerge as new work, "they re-emerge of themselves" (Manning, 2014; 74). This work may shift again.

A4 Inkjet prints

 

Inkjet prints - various sizes

 

I spend a lot of time taking photographs and uploading them onto my computer. I adjust levels and contrast. I trace, crop and re orientate, I print, I photocopy, I scan. I re introduce 2 dimensional images to their 3 dimensional selves. Obviously things change, dialogues are set up. I am interested in this process.

 
 
 

"In the process, these objects may become strange and abstract - ‘husked down’, Marten says, ‘to geometric memories of themselves’, that can be remodelled to give rise to new and unexpected stories or ideas." (Tate Britain, Turner Prize, 2016)