Paper Trash Books ~ an online workshop taking place on kitchen tables, dressing tables, coffee tables, tea trays on laps.....
Happy to be invited back to Falmouth University to run an online workshop for Stage 2 Fine Art students working from home during the second Covid-19 lockdown.
Students were prompted to spend a couple of weeks before the workshop collecting paper-based waste material - junk mail, letters, magazines, newspapers, packaging, cardboard boxes, stickers and wrappers. They were asked to bring this papery material to the workshop along with scissors, glue, sticky tape and a safety pin.
In this two-hour, practical online workshop, we made simple books and an accompanying cardboard cut out safety pin badge from our paper based trash. Beginning with a meditative folding activity, we used the language of folding to each make a single page instant book from a piece of A4 paper. We examined and discussed our papery trash. Through a process of selecting, deconstructing, re-organising, sequencing and arranging our waste papers, we pieced together a collection of Trash Books and shared our work with each other through phone, tablet and laptop cameras.
Pictured above - an impromptu working surface for instant book making - a cat and keyboard jigsaw puzzle box is perfect for making instant books on your lap...wherever you are during a global pandemic.
March, 2021