papographs

These works started out in a small form, as cards.  I decided to enlarge the process and mount them directly on to stretched canvas.  It’s a technique I invented of applying and mixing liquid paper pulp, similar in method to painting.  I carefully incorporate photographs that provide the sharp focal point and the pulp confuses the boundaries, creating a blurred, peripheral and out-of-focus effect.  These works are called Papographs.  In essence they are photographs laminated in handmade paper but when seen they are more mysterious than that …