My second year final piece.
It’s a paper cut supported by audio and moving image.
I projected a slow motion film of moving water onto the paper cut and provided headphones to listen to the audio (which my brother helped me record).
Listen here: http://soundcloud.com/hannah-brice/la-corona-and-the-tin-frog#
Description:
Using a material that is often related to laborious tasks, this work explores the boundaries between dimensions through the craft of paper cutting, accompanied by audio and moving image. Based on an personally memorable illustration from the book ‘La Corona and the Tin Frog’ by Russell Hoban and Nicola Bayley.
La Corona and the Tin Frog is a story from my childhood, a relevant theme in the story is breaking the borders between dimensions. The Tin Frog waits until the clock is about to strike twelve, he then jumps into a painting and swims down through an ocean to reach his love, La Corona.
So I’ve finished my second year of university - it went so quickly.
Some of the students in my year put together an exhibition called “Beyond The Frame” (as part of the Bristol Festival of Photography) which challenged the boundaries of photography. I think the opening night was quite successful.
Admittedly most of the work ended up being photographs, but there was some other media involved such as installation and painting.
My piece was a paper cut installation which I will upload a photo and description of after this post.
This is the beginning of a fairly complicated A4 paper cut which I started today, I’m hoping it will turn out well enough to be my final piece (or part of).
It’s based off an image from the book ‘La Corona and the Tin Frog”.
Papercutting don’t half make your back ache.
“He was totally foreign in speech as well as in appearance, and the clock on the wall could not even recognise the names of the hours called out by the incense-burning wooden night watchman.”
I made a paper tree.
I scalpelled grass-like shapes out of this A4 paper for a project I’m doing based around paper art/sculpture.
