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Traces

 

The Dogma 19 group agreed to mount a second small show, at Cass Art in Kingston.  We agreed to use tracing paper this time.  I dreamt of making something big and dramatic but had trouble sourcing the appropriate paper.  I ultimately decided to reduce my ambition and work more practically.  It was a tiny informal show and there was to be no PV .  

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I remembered the pre-photocopier method of primary school tracing.  Drawing over tracing paper covering the map or diagram to be copied, we would then scribble on the back of the resulting outline in soft pencil and re-trace it into the exercise book.  Nostalgically I used this process to ‘copy’ an image of a spider, and repeated the spider several times, attaching small sheets of tracing paper to a large sheet of white. Interestingly, though I have stitched on paper in the past it turned out to be more of a practical challenge than I expected.  I framed the whole thing in an existing black wooden frame. 

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Claire Michels' piece was a trio of vertical strips full of her lovely characterful people was a joy.  Nicola Seibert Patel's piece was also long thin and quirky - like some strange sea horse that had stolen Nicola's devil's horns from the Crypt.

 

 

 

 

 

The particular piece of learning here for me was to make work which can be effectively documented photographically, as it was rather too pale.  But my work contrasted with what others in the group had made, and I was impressed by how well they had used the material.  In future I will make better use of the group in early discussion about how to source materials and other aspects of how together we could best collaborate on a show.

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