foldinglines

The work is really spinning along – with several strands of the project on the go at once. The physical making is now looking at folding in a rather oblique way – using wire and plastic to explore just the fold itself – edges holding voids leaving just a handful of lines. The visual connections within the slide show have resulted in hours of Photoshop madness but there are some startling images coming from the files. The writing has started to look at categorization and taxonomy as a way of making sense of entry points to collections. All this stuff – Archiving the Artist edited by Vaknin, Stuckey and Lane has some useful points of reference regarding navigating an archive.

pleatfoldcrease

Another week of completing pieces – often it involves bringing two pieces together – often it’s a traditional example of a process with something that is more extensive in its exploration of process and ideas.  Pleating and smocking converge here with a version of the honeycomb smocking sitting within a box pleat, with some heat pressed sublimation printing which focuses on the crease, when does crease become fold?