— stella untalan : artlog

It was a long day in the stu­dio. I spent a con­sid­er­able amount of time exper­i­ment­ing with new mate­ri­als for a series of works on paper. I have been cut­ting pages of text from a num­ber of excep­tional design mag­a­zines to use in these works. The qual­ity of these mag­a­zines means there is a great deal of care that had been taken in set­ting the type. That kind of care cre­ates a color and rhythm over paragraphs.

I used one such page to cre­ate these test sketches.

These are sev­eral strips that I cut at dif­fer­ent widths. They are all the same length. I was work­ing on order­ing and spac­ing them in a way that is con­sis­tent with the way I make my repet­i­tive marks.

The spac­ing of the strips and the way the edges extend beyond the back­ground sheet are also con­sis­tent with my need to break the defined bound­aries that I set for myself. The strips are rotated to cre­ate dif­fer­ent rhythms. These are a few snap­shots I took to doc­u­ment my process.