Paper and Iron Together
Someone asked me to say more about what I'm doing with paper and iron together.
For years I've wanted to make bowls that unite paper and iron. Back in 1991, I made two small "prayer bowls" meant to be held in both hands while praying or meditating. They were five-petaled metal bowls with paper collaged on the inside, and a mantra written on the paper.
I might still make some collage bowls, but you can see that this method makes the paper more or less dependent on the iron or copper. The metal is the bowl in itself, and the paper is an addition, almost just a decoration. More recently I may have gone too far in the other direction, because I've made a lot of paper bowls that just need iron to hold them in place.
What I'm after is making bowls or sculptures in which neither the paper nor the iron are sufficient in themselves. They need each other to make the whole. They have equal weight, so to speak, in the overall harmony of the piece.
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