Decomposing-binding performance assembled hand made paper experimentation
Decomposing-binding performance assembled hand made paper experimentation 2011-2012 was a limited time
1 year experiment that I am hoping to continue one day
Decomposing-binding performance assembled hand made paper experimentation, october 2011. maple leaves, fungi (tar spots), colsfoot leaves, solomen seal, garlic, burning bush leaves, pear and cherry tree leaves..... and more ... in varying stages of decomposition that cause a binding effect, stages before living plant matter becomes compost.
(edited on August 14th, 2014)
This was a limited time 1 year experiment between 2011-2012, that I had to stop, due to lack of funds, time and space. I call it "the decomposing-binding performance assembled (assemblage) paper experimentation" (a new string of words I have put together on August 14th, 2014) These artwork are evolving unpredictable possibly ephemeral or permanent, and are made by weathering, decomposition and assembled with my bare hands, and are not made like traditional hand made paper.
The decomposing-binding as a composing, assembling, collaborative making process with a biodiversity of plants in various stages of decomposition..... Both processes are art, research, activism - performance with the decomposing-binding as a precurser experimentation form of paper making based in letting normal weather changes (rain, wind, hot, cold changes) effect the transformation of plants, to then assemble (assemblage) in making what looks like paper. It could be considered a form of paper making with the natural transformation of vegetation, where the bacteria, fungi decomposers are the chemical transformers, not heat, not synthetic chemicals, but natural invisible factors, like microorganisms, in the air, water and plants, decomposers who are always with us. The result is in a residu that follow, for me, in the tradition of abstract art, (influenced by the teaching of Guido Molinari blindfold paintings (or painting in the dark). They could be coined as well abstract performative creation with living matter that could look like brown beige, green and other fading colors, paper. I touch, move, feel, smell, as the conceiver, initiator of putting living decomposing matter together for a decomposing-binding. co-creative performances a rich diversity of nutricious-medicinal plants, throughout all the seasons, including the winter edible berries (seen only as ornamental hedges), harvesting, foraging, from my front and backyard, and surrounding urban and suburban neighborhoods.
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