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“Paper Play Sanctuary III”, flax handmade paper by PAT FEENEY MURRELL

“Paper Play Sanctuary III”, flax handmade paper by PAT FEENEY MURRELL

Having been parked at home since February 6 due to waiting for surgery and then being postponed as “Elective” due to our all enveloping virus, it has been difficult to find where to escape to.  No luck with the outdoors, except to keep away the rain which floods the basement studio; no luck with the upstairs, only the cat lives there; and thank God for her amusing presence!  So, that left the one thing that I can always count on – the artist’s image.  Whether it is body skin imagery, digital imagery twisted and turned, or paper imagery, usually in the form of cast human sculpture, it is always a path, a place, a haven in which to jiggle and twiggle forms and space, to play with textures, to imgine what it might be if pasted on some model’s torso.  

So, this time it is an escape into “paper play”, or what happens when various formations of handmade paper meet each other.  They don’t play this way when being made by spraying pulp onto flat surfaces outdoors.  This “play” allows for overlays not even pasted down, color and form shifted from the model’s body to a more painterly prospect.  In fact it is like returning to Painting, which is where I started.  It is an interesting “sanctuary” not visited in a long time.  So maybe the virus has some use after all!

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July 19, 2020

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July 19, 2020