Paper Cabbage Leaves

I feel like I am loving this process but I think it needs time to rest, which I don’t really have with the MA winding up. I know once I clear out the utility room of paper I won’t get it out again for a while and I need time away so I am keen to take this project as far as it can go. After a very positive chance encounter at one of the Vanner Gallery events I am feeling encouraged to draw together the various strings of this artistic bow and continue as an artist who does lots of things - drawing, painting, paper making and having not even explored the ceramics course I paid for in the Summer I am now signing up for a sewing on paper course with Paper Lab and I am still wondering if I can squeeze in the Soil Chromatography. Too many plates spinning, no wonder I am feeling a bit like stepping off the roundabout.

I am finding these cabbage casts beautiful and resonant. Their forms echoing with craniums, walnuts and so many flora and fauna. The repetitions of pattern and rhythm in nature are endless. I love the food waste idea developing slowly, the quick waste, slow casting. They aer so fragile and yet hold their shape perfectly. The question now is what to do next: the phosphorescence is underway but in the studio so not yet photographed. Painting them with Quink feels really good and I love the results but I love the white, sculptural forms too. I should just leave them to cure, settle, be in the world for a bit but the slow process means I need to push on if I am to have anything to show in the Summer.