Tissue Paper

I enjoy working with tissue paper to explore Formalist principles. In my floor works, I build up layers of tissue paper in various compositions. I am interested in transparency and opacity, as well as ideas of weight, surface, lightness, delicacy and sturdiness. Each sheet of tissue paper is so fragile and delicate, but when stacked upon each other their lightness becomes harder to discern. 

The exciting thing is layering transparent colour and observing the effects of this. These works, I feel, make the viewer work quite hard. Like an Albers painting, they are experiments in colour, and focussed on investigating different colour relationships. I especially like how most of the sheets are hidden within the work, there are multiple colours and materials contained in a stack that an observing viewer would not know were there. It is the edges of each pile that most interest me, where the hidden sheets emerge slightly. How do these slithers of colour alter the experience of the work?