i traced a couple of the the typed number lines from the photocopies. i wanted to manipulate them further. i cut them and reshaped them, and then made a drawing with the new forms. i stuck the tracing paper together using masking tape, which has a very tactile quality. they became little objects in their own right. the drawings were also successful (in my opinion). I see them as possibly becoming little etchings. i may go further with this and do the whole series of them, if i have the time.

i've been doing some more work with the photocopies of the number lines. i made two versions - one using the whole piece of paper folded, and the other cutting it down to a more handleable size. these are not bound but just placed together. i'm interested more by the edges of the pieces than opening them up and looking at what's inside. it is the same information, just a small sections of it. alone, on a single sheet, it is barely noticeable but when viewed together in a bunch it creates something else. 

oh, and we had our "colour" exhibition at Wilson Rd. i think it went really well. i put these two pieces in - sorry,not great photos at all! quick concept - making time visible whilst playing with shadows.

i photocopied the drawings and will work further with this.i'm going to create a series of books - each book a will contain a separate drawing. the drawings retain their delicacy in the reproductions. i want to play with scale a little with these. oh, and we handed in our project proposals yesterday...

i finally finished my cut up number drawings.that was a journey on its own! i traced a few and had a bit of play around and want to trace the whole series and do further work with it. the delicate line is interupted by these loose folds making it impossible to follow it fully. the way the line is visible on both sides adds to this and is inviting the viewer to try and track the journey of the pencil drawing. i wonder whether slide projections could be shown on the surface? or in another way?...

i've been going to the creative bookbinding class at LCC. this is one i completed last week. we were able to use whatever images we wanted so i took some of my letter press "mistakes". it's not something i would usually make, but it actually turned out alright.

i am slowly leaving faint tracings of drawings around the studio space as i move my drawings when i have finished the cutting etc. i'm not sure if they show up so well on the photo, but they are like little whispers of the work that was there...

i was playing with the cut out drawing i had done last week (pictured in the bottom image).i made some folds which had a page-like quality to them but i don't think this is evident in the photo. 

i've been working with the typewriter numbers. it's a work in progress. i'm making lines with them. it's slow going but i'm happy with it at the moment...

i did another drawing (using the wiggly "number lines"), which i'm going to fold up and perhaps bind. but i liked the way the strips formed what were almost like pages as they curled up. so i took photos in case this could be something i use later.

cut out drawing

i finished the cut up drawing i mentioned in a previous post. pieces like this can only ever be temporary in that form, as moving it will change it, crease it etc.

i was playing around with one cut out drawing i made. i was wondering what would happen if i totally released it from the larger page. so i cut it out totally and played around. when mounted so that it "hangs" vertically the paper holds it shape nicely. it almost resembles really old maps when routes were drawn as vertical straight lines with drawings of points of interest along them. i am also interested with the marks left behind on the wall when the cutting is completed...

i'm experimenting with my drawings.i took the number lines that i had been working with earlier. and i traced around them. at the moment i just have the three to work with, but i've been working more with the letter press and so will be creating more soon. i initially wanted to trace round them to then do more cut out drawings. but i found the simple tracings quite striking in their simplicity. i did a few tracings and am working on a cut out right now (photos to follow)...

i bound the books simply in a card board cover. i'm relatively happy with the results. the card board gives a little more structure and allows for a different presentation. i think perhaps my first comment in the previous post is true, and that they are more successful when not bound. it needs some playing with maybe ...

i wanted to try putting the numbers in a "standard" book form to see if this would be a way of containing them with documenting in mind - each sheet being a single books in an ordered series. the loose stack possibly may be more exciting than a bound version...?

these are the pages from which i cut out the numbers a few weeks ago (see further down blog).i wanted to work on them further so i thought i would photograph them first. the loose layers work well to draw the viewer in. i had originally just wanted to cut the numbers out,but the resulting delicate cut outs were intriguing (with this idea of non-information).i may come back to this set out, but want to experiment some more with these...