Fleet of Folded Thought (reflecting upon my work)

Taking paper as a mundane object focusing on letter writing -  now considered 'old fashioned' 'un fashionable' due to advances in technology, to create a fleet of over 500 hand made porcelain boats in various sizes.  




I became interested in constructing flat sheets of paper into 3D forms, researching origami and using my own personal experiences came up with the idea that handwritten letters not only the contain the context of the letter but a trace of the writer. 
When reading hand written letters although a silent form of communication you can almost hear the persons voice carefully folded into each word. From this i decided not only was the paper important ( paper contact from both the sender and receiver) but the actual thought contained within it, taking discarded or found paper to make casts i created my 'Fleet' of porcelain boats to visually represent/communicate the lost thought and the un-appreciation of paper in our society today. 


In some of my photographs it looks almost like a grave yard/an abandoned wreckage. To represent discarded and lost paper i chose to use boats which were damaged and broken and exhibit them of the floor. The boat is symbolic, alone a solitary and isolated, as a fleet these fragile paper like boats become powerful and have a large impact not only on the audience but on the space in which they inhabit.