I was advised to look to literature to develop a more concrete context and source for material to use in my work. The form of a book has partly been addressed in the act of filling a sketchbook every day, but I have been looking more specifically at how the content of the text can be used…
I have also considered how the book can be considered as an object to work with, using its visual qualities to provoke an action in response. The work of Joe Rudko has come to my attention because of his use of found images/and photographs as a material which are stretched beyond their original means. Rudko breaks up the images and extends them with pencil lines of a corresponding colour. These linear pathways fill the gap between the fragments of the image, and alter its shape and composition. They seem almost cartographic in nature; they are tracing something, mapping a pathway through the image. It is an infiltration of the original image that reveals something else, unlocking a new narrative. The folded corner in ‘Manual’ (2014) shows a hint of the past or future of the book, depending on which way the page is bent. A folded corner in a book marks a place; a location within a text, a place of interest, somewhere to return to. It is an integrated bookmark that is tactile and leaves a permanent mark on the page. Perhaps a way that I source material is to find marked pages in existing books and to use only those pages; to follow in the footsteps of a previous reader.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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