in the studio : May 2012

It was a long day in the studio. I spent a considerable amount of time experimenting with new materials for a series of works on paper. I have been cutting pages of text from a number of exceptional design magazines to use in these works. The quality of these magazines means there is a great deal of care that had been taken in setting the type. That kind of care creates a color and rhythm over paragraphs.

I used one such page to create these test sketches.

 

These are several strips that I cut at different widths. They are all the same length. I was working on ordering and spacing them in a way that is consistent with the way I make my repetitive marks.

 

The spacing of the strips and the way the edges extend beyond the background sheet are also consistent with my need to break the defined boundaries that I set for myself. The strips are rotated to create different rhythms. These are a few snapshots I took to document my process.