It was Jill's turn to ask two
questions:
(1) How, in the context of this project/extreme distress, do you view yourself as traveller, and
(2) How do you imagine the landscape that you are attempting to create?
Well, I am expanding my borders for sure. I had never thought I would ever demolish a book and have it end up into pulp. But I have thought, in fact I do that to every book I alter, I do it to every book only by reading it, by opening the pages, cracking the spine a bit - especially pocket books - so it lies open well. I am travelling not only beyond the regular borders of how to deal with books, but as a traveller, I also make the balance of how I have dealt with books in the past in the regular sense of just reading them. I think that is one of the essences of travelling: moving beyond the horizon and taking the time and the rest to look back at where you have been, to redefine the goal of the journey and to search new directions.
I think my asnwer to Jill's second question is good for taking this rest for now. I have done some experiments with the pulp, turned some into ATC's, have built a mini 'casa de papel' of it and have still some left for a second 'casa de papel'. If Jill speaks in terms of a landscape, I would like to call it creating
paperscapes. I am pretty sure I'll continue working with paper as a medium, where the way I used to create pulp could be one of the gimmicks. The pulp as I have handled it has a quite rough and whimsical structure, a feature I like about it. At first sight it looks quite workeable, so perhaps my idea of creating sculptures with paperpulp is a good one, only that will need some more experiments. What I especially like about it is that (well, maybe not so much on this picture) the remains of a book are visible, though I want to continue my experiments with putting a book without the covers into the machine. Hopefully it will lead to some nice paperscapes :-)
