O100 was my first paper cutting project in 2006. It started life as an 80 sheet A3 artist’s sketch pad and was an experiment of translation between motion and sculpture.
Unlike the later, ‘In Hind Sight’, which started as filmed moving objects, here the sculpture was cut out first and the individual pages were later turned into video using stop motion photography animation. The various geometrical shapes are based on circles and rectangles which travel or rotate and change size with each page according to a variety of mathematical formulae. There are also some experimental free-hand shapes, which are not bound to the usual connected and smooth properties of observable motion in time (e.g. the tree-like shape in the lower right-hand side).
The work was shown in the first pop-up exhibition I organised after leaving my Fine Art BA, in a disused office space in Wandsworth. The sketchpad was displayed on a director's music stand. An animation made from photographs of the pages of the sculpture was projected onto the cover opposite the sculptural element of the sketchpad.
The intention of the work was to extract the time-element inherent in a solid shape, through slicing and interchange of dimensions.
After exhibiting the work in several shows, in 2009 I extracted the pages of the sculpture from the binding and framed them in order to conserve this otherwise fragile sculpture.
The video of the animation is now available as a separate work.
