Rania Abdalla
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(Un)consciously Creating
The process of making paper can be very gentle, tactile, and soothing. It requires you to really feel the fibers of the materials you're working with, from tearing up sheets of compressed fiber into postage sized stamps, to beating up your pulp, and to hand-stirring the pool of pulp sitting in your vat. It requires you to form a relationship with your materials, so you can know when they’re ready to do what you want them to. After pressing sheets of pulp onto pellon, you have to give it all the time it needs to dry thoroughly. If you don’t, you risk destroying the sheets when you attempt to peel them off. However, if you patiently follow through the process of forming sheets, the possibilities are endless, depending on the tools you have available to you. A pair of scissors may seem like the most basic, ordinary crafting tool you can own. However, the act of cutting up your materials is more transformative than you may think! Once you cut up your paper into your desired shapes, you can collage, sew, glue, weave, and/or sculpt them together. You can create cutouts and layer materials together, or leave cutouts as they are. The possibilities are endless!
By Rania Abdalla3 years ago in Humans