Vasiliki

1. Title???

A sculpture/construction made from a old paper. The length of it is 1,24 cm, the maximum width is 23 cm and the minimum 14 cm, the height of the object is the same as the papers less than a millimeter. Narrow paper stripes glued next to each other, almost over lay in full width.

I found a really old book in a second hand store; the pages of the book had a different texture from the impact of time. Specially the end of each page was changed, it had yellow marks (‘slightly foxed’). I decided to work with the signs of the time on the paper. I cut the edges off each page then glued them down so that they overlap, suggesting the texture of a feather. What fascinates me about the quality of the paper is the fact hat this book has been there for so long, that it sometimes has notes and it doesn’t have anything to do with the content, just like the book itself. I always collect books that I don’t really like in terms of their thematic, they have a particular shape, the paper, the cover, the way the technical information about the production of the book is written, dates and who made it but I’m not interested in the content. I often get books in languages I don’t understand, I some time find interesting the typography or the book it self.

2. A sculpture or a drawing????

The installation consists of two objects, two linear drawings on different fabrics. (Somewhere between sculpture and drawing)

Embroidery and a screen print – [what are the properties that make them sculptures or drawing?]

The two dimension of the drawing and the three dimensions of the material. Both of the drawings are questions of how three or two dimensions; they are cubical, but flat.

One is white and the other is dark grey. The grey one is a woolen fabric 2,40m long 50cm, width and height 5-7mm.

The white is 1.50x1.50 The machine makes a white embroidering of one centimeter wide on the grey fabric, the drawing is an irregular narrow rectangle. The second drawing is on a white fleece fabric printed with the technique of screen-printing.

The sense of warmth. The texture of a blanket. A cover. The sense of protecting something brings the image of a grave. A column but this time on the floor, lying horizontal on something soft.

A sculpture or a drawing. Μaybe a peformative object, if used by a dancer.

A woolen blanket, used to cover bodies, is now engraved by the showing machine turning the surface to a canvas. The out line long cubic rectangle shape that can be read as open or closed/irregular.

3.Found objects

A collection of found objects, from the seaside some of them are manufactured objects such as toy car, a copper bell, coins, a red dice, others natural ones as pebbles, shells and some fragments of irregular plastic and metal. Separated in groups, assembled together. Each group is creating a new form by stow the objects in such a way that the balance them self by their weight and shape.

Enlarge prints of them in a light paper, final dimension 200x200cm.

walking

observing

collecting

assembling

remember

create

communicate

Long walks on the sea side, lots of found objects either regular or not have taken the place of the natural pebbles, mixed all together create a new icon of the seaside.

Each one o f the objects are unique in texture, form and color brings back memories or possible scenario of the former use. Ugly or beautiful, I can t tell I just collect them.

I assemble them together. Try to balance them in small groups. The new groups of them are forming an independent aggregation.