Vasiliki

1.

An object made from an old book. The length of it is 1,24 cm, the width varies form 14 to 23 cm. The height of the object is less than a millimeter. Narrow paper stripes glued next to each other, almost over lay in full width. I found an old book in a second hand store; each page 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 and glued the stripes of in a way that would almost over lap. The texture of the object is similar to a feather or to the backside of a mushroom. What fascinates me with the old books, is not necessary its content, but the transfiguration of the paper through time. I am interested in the form, shape and the material of the book. Equally important are the technical information usually written at the back of the book. (where it was printed, how many copies, the kind of the paper, the date) I often collect book in languages that I don’t understand because of the typography of the book or just for the paper.

2.

A sculpture or a drawing?

The work consists of two pieces, two linear drawings on different fleece fabrics.

Are they props for a dancer? Are they perhaps they are drawings? maybe sculptures?

Somewhere between the space of sculpture and drawing. What are the properties that would make something a sculpture or a drawing? Both of the works are a question on two and three dimensions. The colour of the first piece is white, its dimensions are 150x150x 0.4 cm and a irregular cube is screen - printed on it. The second piece is dark gray; its dimensions are 240 x 50 x 0.8cm. A distorted rectangle is mechanically embroidered. The width of the line of the embroidering is 1cm and the thread is white Polyester.

The sense of warmth.

The texture of a blanket.

A cover.

The sense of protecting something brings the image of a box.

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.