THE BEGINING OF THE PAPER SCULPTURES AND INSTALLATIONS

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Wanting to spread color across a large area of space without using light or gallons of paint, I needed something different. Shortly, I was gifted a box of large sheets of 24x36 bright pink paper. I had a new medium to use, new subject matters and a way to express my Art through installations.

The "Pink & Bleach" series are the results of using spray bottles mixed with bleach water and spraying the pink paper leaving a white, wet painterly effect on the paper. One of these sheets were used for the "Seductive Glances" collage.

The rules are no folds or creases. The paper is held up by thumb tacks and proportional gravity created from the paper positioning.

The submerged visual effect comes from the ribbons, waves and splashes of color against large areas of wall space or within a confined space.  

Creating the "Vertical Pool" where the participants within the space are standing within a pool of flowing shapes and color.

The Four Phases 

1) Pink & Bleach Large Sheets of Pink construction paper

2) Multi-colored sheets of paper

3) Rolls of Pink Kraft Butcher Paper stretched across the room, framing the other works in the exhibition.

4) Self-contained small room along with Jame P.s painted tubes suspended by wire.

There were a total of 8 different exhibitions in 6 locations in 2 different cities from 2001 until 2010.

Explosion at the Greenwich was the conclusion to this series. I started to become concerned about the paper waste from each of these shows and I stopped the practice. I had thought about shredding it up and turning the pulp into many multi colored sculptures, but that idea never fully manifested itself over time.