surface research plan 2010 - 2011 # 4

How will I research this?
For the practical realisation of the “creation & destruction” research I would like to follow a methodical research line in a laboratory. I will work with sheets of 300 grams Arches watercolour paper and with mounted linen with more or less the same dimensions of 30 x 40 cm. Using a long tables where I can place several of these duos, I will apply the different stages and methods of destruction on each original, empty monochrome white paper and linen surface. The destruction can be done using rough sandpaper or an awl, by carving and scraping with a cutter or by working the paper and linen with an ordinary hammer or lump hammer, a stone or a stick. Or by piercing the paper and linen with arrows shot from a bow, with bullets from a gun, pellets from a shotgun … Or by simply tearing it…

Five chronological stages in the practical research process could be as follows.
1: different acts of destruction on plain surfaces with the three types of paper.
2: the same acts of destruction on plain surfaces in order to get treated surfaces for drawing.
3: again treating the plain surfaces in the same way, then drawing on them and again applying the acts of destruction.
4: drawing abstract patterns on the sheets of paper and applying different acts of destruction to them.
5: drawing portraits and/or human figures on the sheets of paper and applying different acts of destruction to them.
The various methodical stages of the research process will be documented using film and photography. The process, including answers to research questions and deliberations made along the way, will be shown on this blog surfaceresearch-hj.blogspot.com.
The research could be given additional depth by allowing a few interested students to execute the same destruction and creation process. This would enable the exchange of ideas, lines of thought and insights to be used for new lines of research.

To film the process seems the most obvious way of documentation. Hence, the first employee will be a camera on a tripod.