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About The Artist
Ann Marie Kennedy • Raleigh, NC
Paper • CUSTOM COMMISSIONS
In these works, I explore paper’s ability to contain memory and the residue of place. The pieces are made using a hand papermaking process. I compose materials like plants, linens, shredded cloth and lace in a slurry of wet pulp. The pulp itself is created from textile materials and are processed in a Hollander beater. As I lift the papermaking tool, out of the water, the materials float around in the pulp and rearrange themselves, often creating a sense of organic movement and disrupting the sense of order I am trying to impose. I often add marks and lines using a type of pigmented pulp. The paper dries translucent, revealing the materials within the piece. These works refer to a particular moment in time, but also to the nature of memory itself the way we revise and re-pattern it while contributing to its illusion of stability.
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Q&A with the ArtistTell us how your work is made.I create artwork from paper pulp using hand papermaking processes. Starting with textile fibers such as linen, cotton, raw flax and abaca I process them in a hollander beater to create the paper pulps I work with. This allows me to customize the qualities in the final work. I add color by pigmenting pulp paint that I use for stencils and painting. I arrange materials in wet paper pulp in a type of frame called a deckle box. When I lift the box out of the vat, the materials tend to rearrange themselves creating a sense of arrested motion. The water drains from the deckle box, leaving a residue of fiber. When dried under pressure, the paper forms into the final work, and can be translucent, textured, smooth and/or opaque. |
