 June 2009: paper crane made from advertisement paper pierced with an ornamental toothpick, Japanese style letter paper | In Japan, colourful advertisement papers are the everyday norm. They get delivered to you inserted in the local newspaper. They tell you what are on offer in the local supermarkets, the rooms for sale in the newly built apartments, even pets and cars are all advertised in these papers. I love them because they give you a glimpse into an imaginary lives of the will be consumers, me being one of them. I cut out a small square from an advertisement paper and folded a crane for the June 2009 work. I found interesting the juxtaposition of making an art work from such mundane, throw-away material. I happened to have some of this advertisement paper with me in Winchester. I decided to use them again for the current piece. I cut out even tinier square pieces from the various colourful papers and turned them into a meticulously created mosaic. But the vibrant mosaic piece did not really do anything for me. It seemed somehow out of place. Intuitionally I covered it with layers and layers of tracing paper, depicting images of boxes. I layered it until I knew it was covered enough. The piece seems to fit my psyche and my surrounding now. |  'Boxes', advertisement paper, tracing paper, graphite, ink, masking tape, 13 January 2014 |