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'Pulp Fictions', 2024

Paper pulp, scrap paper, magazine cutouts, fabric 

Working with paper pup creates a cycle: of gathering, breaking down, reforming, drying, and then repeating,  a loop of destruction and reconfiguration. Drawing on the mass-printed Pulp Fiction magazines of the 1930s-1950s UK, Europe, and USA - initially throwaway adventure stories that grew to absorb the era's misogyny and violence - the project engages with the magazine's enduring cultural afterlives in cinema, gaming, and science fiction aesthetics. The deconstruction and physical reassembly, the work both conceptually and physically 'breaks down' these tropes and reimagines them. 'Pulp Fictions' celebrates the cheap, kitch, diy, accessible and collaborative nature of paper pulp as a material, while interrogating the aesthetics of appropriation. 

'I Left Him Fifty Times' emerged unexpectedly as a by-product of the pulp collage process. A stack of A4 sheets - each printed with a single word from the Sunday Times - were abandoned as scrap. During the pulp process, they were repurposed to soak up excess water and dye from the collages, all shapes, markings and apparent coordination with the text, completely accidental. 

I Left Him Fifty Times

'I Left Him Fifty Times' paper pulp, scrap paper, cardboard, aluminium rings. Video, 25secs

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