Forwarding: Provisional Pairs
Forwarding: Provisional Pairs, 2021, carbon transfer on handmade Japanese mulberry paper, eighty-eight diptychs, dimensions variable (each sheet 12 in x 9 in)
Forwarding: Provisional Pairs, 2021, carbon transfer on handmade Japanese mulberry paper, remainder pairs and unpaired, dimensions variable (each sheet 12 in x 9 in)
I make most of my work by devising rules-based systems for interacting with specific source material, most of which originates in the domestic arena. The various Forwarding projects are a collaboration with and re-broadcasting of shapes drawn by 19th century quilt-maker Rachel Blair Greene. In this project, subtitled Provisional Pairs, I look at the interrelationships between pairs of contiguous shapes from her Crazy Quilt, 1885-1895. The project also provides an opportunity to consider the difference between my own careful choices and and choices made by a random number generator.
The bulk of the project is made up of diptychs with a drawing of a pair of shapes on each sheet. These are pairs of pairs, and the pairings are provisional. Each diptych offers two possible partners for a randomly chosen primary shape. The left hand drawing includes the primary shape and a contiguous shape chosen by me while the right hand drawing includes the primary and a contiguous shape chosen randomly.
All Image Credits: Tom Powel Imaging
