enmesh: Winsome Jobling
Plant fibres are the raw materials for paper makers; the carbon, hydrogen and oxygen that make up cellulose are also the most common elements in the human body; therefore as a papermaker empathy for the environment is in my blood!
The reciprocal relationships of all living and non-living things is an elaborate and all-encompassing mesh of networks.
Hand paper making allows me to transform fibres into new materials, to make paper that can bring an ecosystem of very real issues into tangible form.
Printed paper pulps, bushfire charcoal and ochres are added on the wet sheet which are haunted by watermarks. The paper becomes both the substrate and content.
The works become an interplay between the method and the message about the nature of the human impact on the world around us.
My paper is not a neutral support.
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