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Exchange 12

July 2nd 2020

The Russian doll images prompted my initial response. I scanned the doll images onto sheets of paper and used them to make a series of origami folded boxes with lids. They fitted into each other the same way as a stack of Russian dolls and in the smallest box I put the words: When, Was, Girl, Free, Yes and Why, which I cut from the printed poster I was sent. 

Exchange 11

June 18th 2020

June 8th 2020

Exchange 10

I photographed the lamp different coloured backgrounds (one blue the other green) showing through the bubble wrap and printed the photographs back to back on single sheet of paper. From newspaper I cut the words which were used in the the dream-catcher response (see exchange 7) Where, When, Why, Free, Girl, Alone, How, Was and Yes. I glued each word to a single bubble of bubble wrap and then glued these to the printed image with a blue background. 

In a similar way I glued bubbles onto the image with a green background but this time using words I felt fitted the mood of the image:  Wind, Look, Dreamy, Universal and Spell.

May 13th 2020

Exchange 9

A single word bird returned to me suspended by wires. The whole piece worked as a lamp made from a string of fairy lights, the shade was made from large bubble wrap and the bird nestled in it’s centre. Inserted inside occasional bubbles were single letters or words cut from text.

February 27th 2020

Exchange 8

I unthreaded the origami birds from the dream catcher, and cutting words and letters from printed text I extended their wings.

I took pencil rubbings of the words which were stamped onto the metal tags and cut the words and glued them on some of the other birds wings. 

The coloured paper bird which was from the centre of the dream-catcher hoop I also extended its wings but this time using coloured text. 

21st January 2020 

Exchange 7

My word birds were returned to me threaded on embroidery silks and in the form of a dream catcher. The three strands which hung were weighted by metal tags at their ends, and a further six tags were bent round and bound to the hoop. Each tag had a word stamped into the metal, their were a total of nine words:

Where, When, Why, Free, Girl, Alone, How, Was and Yes

December 18th 2019

Exchange 6

In response to the work I received, I tore out pages from the book and made origami cranes with them. I placed them between the pages and sent the work back in the post. I feel the intervention I took was responding to the bound, restricted and fixed qualities of the work when I received it. Somehow the freedom which birds symbolise seemed to redress this and by cutting the knots and allowing light and air into the book it became more about liberation and possibility to me.

November 20th 2019

Exchange 5

An intriguing response which I really loved, a book the cover of which had been removed and sections of pages were folded and secured tightly with knotted embroidery silks. It felt secretive or private because I couldn’t access the piece fully. 

I waited for several days to see if I felt I should dismantle the work to see if there was more or if I felt that was too intrusive and make my response only to what I could see as. My curiosity got the better of me and I decided to cut the threads and open the pages