Material reconstruction principles

When I developed my drawing and installation practice in response to the landscape of Bakestonedale Moor in the Peak District, I made a lot of drawings outdoors. I made them on folded and sewn paper panels that I propped up on the surface of the land. Paper and fabric are flat materials. They can be folded, or cut into smaller sections and then become reassembled to form large units. I cut and folded the paper panels in such a way that the properties of the material best suited the purpose of producing a three-dimensional drawing support. This work made me reflect about the principles of using materials. We fold them, or divide or join them. There is also a ‘sharing’ of properties and emerging functions when materials come together to functional modules. These drawings here are made on a digital drawing tablet. I make drawings to think things through, to discover abstract principles behind things, and the physical actions of drawing, using the stylus and marking lines on the screen, gives such abstract thinking an embodied dimension.