Su Blackwell works in the realm of paper incorporating fairy tales and folk-lore into her work. Her works include book structures, cutting out images to create 3D dioramas and displaying inside wooden boxes.
Like Su Blackwell i am intrigued by paper as a medium due to its easy accessibility and fragile, delicate qualities. Su Blackwell employs this delicate medium to reflect on the precariousness of the world we inhabit and the fragility of our life dreams and ambitions.
The use of paper in my own work, whether it is by means of cutting out, layering, making paper, applying the paper to another surface or creating 3D forms, has become a recurring non intentional theme throughout my work. My attraction to using paper within my work mainly comes from how much paper is used in our daily lives yet seems to go unappreciated and to many does not hold great important. My interests lie in the fragility of life, presence and absence, boundaries of space whist exploring a sense of self and identity, enables me to use paper in various ways in which i aim to visually communicate emotions, thoughts and unanswered questions.
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