Week Forty-Nine | Tracing Paper Scroll

I seem to be on a roll as it’s all rather suddenly coming together.

The first trace narrative seems to be emerging based on the idea of a memorial quilt of drawings. The layering is important so I have used tracing paper so it can be see-through. I also like the idea of the animation, in a very loose sense. Studying Dryden Goodwin’s work has been very informative, to see how traditional drawing can be - literally - given life through movement and animation. I am making layers of tracing paper drawings and allowing them to move and appear and disappear between the layers. They remind me of the beautiful Chinese scrolls I saw at the British Museum, and they are also rather satisfyingly taking on the shape of a hanging book, which was an idea I was looking into in Year One.

I like the stills too, they feel ethereal and speak to grief. They move away from clean edges and horizon lines into a more fluid, ambiguous world of incomplete edges, an emerging tapestry.

Below is a video of roughly taping the line drawings of my garden and the surrounding ‘landscape’ - I use that word with caution - and layering the drawings onto a roll of tracing paper then folding it back on itself to contain it.

I then stuck the whole scroll onto the kitchen door and had a play with the light and sense of ‘animation’. I think I love it. I don’t know at this point how to make the drawings move and come alive without putting my finger into it but it’s a lovely start.