minus projects

Tricycle Magazine; The Buddhist Review,

Magazine minus all images of objects or text.

dimensions variable, 2007

This project explores the possibilities of form within the preexisting. Throughout these explorations I re-define the properties of everyday notes, receipts, magazines and newspapers by subtracting what is known. In many cases this involves the subtraction of text and/or imagery. What evolves is and abstraction created via collaboration with whatever or whoever made the original mark, i.e. the designer, consumer, or note giver. It is through this process of making that I find something that was already there all along, but was too difficult to see through the distractions of language and/or presumptions about image. Once a piece is complete, I am left with a purely visual abstraction of what the object meant or conveyed prior to the interaction. 

Tricycle Magazine