paper

I began to consider what rules and obstacles are, and how we might be deflected by them and see things in different ways, or as new things. I considered the things in my life that are fixtures, not necessarily obstacles, but those that occupy spaces in my thoughts. Each of these spaces has a surface, an organizational system. I took about 15 feet of white paper and double sided scotch tape and began to make the paper meander and coil on itself to make multiple enclosed spaces, one for each thing that I am pre-occupied with. It would take hundreds of bent surfaces to represent the number of thoughts that I multi-task on. 15 feet was not enough.

I found that to make the paper meander in S shapes was easy, but to create circles in it required an abrupt fold, like a cusp of a change. If sufficient meanders and circle shapes are made, the floppy paper becomes self supporting, collapsing on the edges of the structure. I want to make small holes through the walls of the paper to allow light to pass from one cavity to the next.