Reception for Sheets, Planes and Pulp

Nice turn out for at the reception for the Sheets, Planes and Pulp.

Margaret Hawkins, the juror, focused on the immediacy, fragility, and mark making of paper as drawing points for the medium. I see what she means. Paper tends to want to be and to feel very hands on. I found sculptural aspects compelling: one artist made a sculpture that looked and felt like a smooth, shiny stone; another artist made transluscent cocoon like forms.

As for my piece and some more thoughts on reassembly, sadly, a couple elements did not want to hold to the Center's wall (the wall was more textured than the original installation wall), preferring the floor area. I did not mind the dropped elements, but was bothered by the remnants of tape, like stains on the piece, left behind on the wall. I reset the couple winged elements that slipped, substituted winged elements for the book pages after deciding the book pages might be too heavy to cling, and set the book pieces as emerging from the swarm. The arrangement, even with these tweaks, works conceptually and visually. Of course, differences are only apparent to me. Not even those who had seen the piece previously installed seemed to realize the differences -- an interesting footnote perhaps on what people may or may not retain from viewing a piece of art.

One other observation: I'm not sure the swarm aspect hit viewers as immediately this time around.