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zig-zag panels on Bakestonedale Moor

Flat paper can be a superb surface to make drawings. But, when there is a lot of wind (and rain), a paper surface needs pinning to the ground, otherwise the wind will rip it and blow it away. I have taken long lengths of lining paper, folded it double at certain intervals and inserted sharpened wooden sticks into the thus created tunnels. I pinned the sticks to the ground in consideration of the prevailing wind directions and the topography of the ground. Then, I sat next to the paper panels and made drawings with marker pens or ink. These three-dimensional drawing supports als worked as a shelter from the wind. Using paper and wooden sticks in such a way were part of my large PhD project where I developed an arts practice in response to the landscape of the British Peak District. If you are interested in this particular instance of drawing, then you could read a wider discussion of it in my PhD thesis from p. 134 onwards. You can read and download it here: https://chesterrep.openrepository.com/handle/10034/629532
At a later stage, I exhibited the zig-zag panels in exhibitions. In such exhibitions I brought together my artefacts from outdoor artmaking and showed them together with photographs and videos about the ways in in which I used them outdoors. 

Sabine Kussmaul

Sabine Kussmaul

Sabine Kussmaul

Sabine Kussmaul

Sabine Kussmaul

Sabine Kussmaul

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