I got really angry at my work not selling and when I went for one of my 3x 5K a week runs I started thinking of destroying some of the work by scrunching it up and throwing it away.
I then imagined wrinkling up vellum and thought how cool it would look wrinkled and it might take on different 3d shapes when wrinkled and how maybe I could make a lamp out of it.
I then got home, immersed the paper in water and “draped it” on my kids jumping gym ball. Once it’s dry I want to figure out how to combine the pieces with rainbow coloured ribbons and create something of a lamp, but also thinking of polish folk traditions and the decorative elements used in the countryside during the easter period. Very bright and colourful with lots of ribbons. I think I partially might have been inspired by an image I saw when I was filling out the open call form for the Paper Biennial 2025 at Museum Rijswijk. There were some amazing images of last years winners. Just giant rounded paper shapes placed around a room with multiple colours covering them like tie dye splashes, like unusable very lightweight furniture.