Harbouring Histories

Old girls:) ... This refers to the paper that was used...

All of a sudden I am on this mission to find interesting paper. This morning I found some old books with nice paper for printing on. Two of them are dictionaries and one is a book of logarithmic tables.... lots of numbers to print on... to juxtapose the calculating and the feeling...

Anyway ... in one of the books I found a few well worn pages with some prayers and instructions typed on them. On the reverse it said 'St. John's Old Girls Association (Durban branch) and it had beautifully ragged edges... so that is what the pieces of paper are...

In the meantime the Fine Art and Jewellery department is organising an exhibition inconjunction with the same department from Curtin University of Technology in Perth and the theme is 'Harbouring Histories'. I had already done a print for the exhibition but I think this is a lot more appropriate ... so I'll be submitting it instead...

The middle one... It has connotations of change...  different ways of defining women over time... maybe it should be the other way around though, but no ... women used to be more clearly defined, have more clearly defined roles, whereas now they are defined differently... They still look the same but are defined by what is around them... the connotations and stereotypes...

Medal print - Jane Eyre

On new? Paper ... This is my first Jane Eyre print...
The paper is a page from the book... I realised that I had some 'nice' paper right under my nose, and it was the right size for the display frames I'd had made..

I felt so guilty tearing pages from a book (good Calvinistic? upbringing) that I decide I was only allowed to tear the pages out if I'd read them. I am now on page 102 and enjoying it a lot. In the process I am finding several wonderful sentences/quotes/words... like 'convolvuli...'

Medals on Cecil's paper

These two were done on some paper that John Skotnes gave to me. He found it in his dad's studio and thought that I might like it... and I do! It is not white, which allows the white ribbon to show better than on the other papers that I have been using.

I started with the damaged/folded corner so that I would not feel so precious about the paper that I would become immobilised.... and it worked!