Time

Time is an automatic writing collection, written on the brown paper you get inside rolls of wrapping paper, in pencil with my non-dominant hand, and then painted with black acrylic paint. This collection started around a year ago and was originally intended to be part of a collaborative research project on time and liminal spaces. The collaboration did not come to anything, but my writing on time continued. 

The liminal spaces as places to exhibit the work fell away, by automatic writing stayed - a practice that I have ended with over the last decade. 

There is no end point penciled in for this collection. It will come to a natural end, and then be exhibited. Each piece is slightly different in length and width, depending on the role of wrapping paper the brown paper came from. The works are likely to be exhibited as wall hangings and will remain unframed. 

Due to the nature of the work, I have little knowledge of what words have emerged in the writing process, other than the starting prompt was the topic of time. I do not read the words once the writing is completed, and when tracing the lines of the letters in acrylic paint I see the words as abstract shapes - often unable to read what the word says. This process protects the work, as I am sure if viewed with a critical eye I would keep the work hidden.