ripped


Abstract reveries on torn paper-based materials exploring ever-changing patterns of torn fibres, light and shadows playing with reliefs. The series was produced during the many solitary hours of the pandemic as a meditative process and a harmless release of intimate tumult.

date

2020

media

cardboard, Ingres paper, washi tape, on paper

size

29.5 x 42 cm
misc.



Successive cuts through a sheet of tracing paper create delicate and translucent curls. The video records this transformation from flatness to volume, from quietness to destruction. 3D patterns emerge from the material itself.

date

2012

media

video, tracing paper
sketch paper and sharp tools

size

1’30”
misc.


© Carole Papion 2022