Oh yes. I love paper. Old maps. Old music. Any paper really. And fountain pens and ink and 6B water soluble graphite. And inktense pencils. Yummy. Got lost in the Itoya store in a Tokyo. And Sennelier in Paris. Happy places. I don’t even have to produce a final piece m, just the mark making is satisfying.
The 'way' you are with Paper, I am with old patina'd objects.....old tarnished silverplated tea-sets, rusted metal objects that once had utilitarian use, old wood weathered down by touch or nature'd elements..... old, thrown out, broken down, once told a story in history, now to be used in a new story, given new life, told by me.
Oh yes. I love paper. Old maps. Old music. Any paper really. And fountain pens and ink and 6B water soluble graphite. And inktense pencils. Yummy. Got lost in the Itoya store in a Tokyo. And Sennelier in Paris. Happy places. I don’t even have to produce a final piece m, just the mark making is satisfying.
The 'way' you are with Paper, I am with old patina'd objects.....old tarnished silverplated tea-sets, rusted metal objects that once had utilitarian use, old wood weathered down by touch or nature'd elements..... old, thrown out, broken down, once told a story in history, now to be used in a new story, given new life, told by me.