ABOUT PAPER AND ABOUT ME
Look what you can do with paper!
Paper knows no limits. It is soft, it is hard and it can be sharp enough to cut you. It can be incredibly strong and its versatility is enormous. Take a used newspaper: It is good for polishing shoes, for wrapping up kitchen refuse, as a moth-stopper in the wardrobe. Paper truly has a thousand and one uses!
ROOF AND WINDOWS OF PAPER
Packaging paper is something we hold in our hands daily. Virserum in Sweden arranged a Wood Biennial in 2004 and built an exhibition hall 60 meters long, covered by a roof made from containers for liquid, resting upon wooden arches. The light filtered down through the paper. It was very beautiful and the roof never leaked during the summer. I participated in the exhibition with four paper objects.
In ancient Korea, they used paper from the long fibres of the mulberry tree for windows and screens. You can see such paper windows on museums and old buildings. In Japan and China, where paper was invented 2000 years ago, beautiful paper is produced from a multitude of plant fibres.
PAPER AS AN ART FORM
Paper as a form of art is something very special. Here quality pulp from cotton or flax fibres is used, not wood fibres which have very low durability. Paper from cotton linters is excellent for documents or lithographs and will last for hundreds of years.
Paper can be formed thin or thick. I love to work with three dimensional objects and make empty forms (I call them sheaths or shells) which allow the viewer to fill out the contents in her or his imagination. “Absence makes presence”, one could say. The pulp can be coloured when it is liquid or later by adding dry pigment that spreads out on the pressed but still moist surface. This is a method I like a lot!
PLEASE CONTACT ME
You are most welcome to contact me. Tel +46-346-12 400 or e-mail: annica@stiernlof.se