Continuing to stretch the potential of ‘weaving’ the written word into a single form has lead me to experiment with weaving in three dimensions. I have cut slots into the strips of layered masking tape and then slotted the strips together, resulting in a piece of work that crossed the boundaries between writing, mark-making and sculpture. Although I have initially presented this piece on a vertical wall there are multiple ways to view and interact with it. Each angle that you look at it presents a different combination of intensities of the ink on the tape, some angles of tape appearing more prominent than others. Similarly each angle presents a different orientation of text, and the relationship between opposing strips of tape means that these orientations can clash or read directly from one to another. The piece also benefits from the capacity of flexibility; its structure allows it to bend and flex like a piece of fabric and it can also fold completely flat into a single line of layered text.
I think that these capabilities allow for further experimentation of the limits of this methodology, with the potential of projection in order to create interesting shadows, and to also play with the individual box-like structures and see what can be contained inside them.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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