Now that my first work was complete I needed to come up with a new way to transform the work. I did this by looking at the front and back of my piece and finding I liked the straight lines of the tape used to stick down my receipts. I decided to combine the front and back of the piece into one work.
By photocopying, tearing and then randomly piecing my front and back together, I created an interesting jumbled work. I took this further by subtracting logs of the scrapbook paper, as I had in my first experiment, and laying tape back onto the piece. I also transferred a barcode onto my work by rubbing charcoal onto paper and creating a primitive type of carbon paper. The unclear result was something I really liked and paired it with a remaining section of barcode so the viewer could recognise the original vs the product, much like in my first work with wood vs paper.
Where to from here?
I found some round wood pieces that are like cross sections of a tree trunk which I may use as my next canvas rather than paper. I also took some rubbings off a section of pavement on K’ Road which I would like to incorporate into the layering of my work as it reminds me of the rings in a tree trunk.
