Repairable Landscape REEF Library Of Shapes No 3

To create my large scale multi-layered artworks I have to cut many paper stencils. As I work through the layers of the artwork, building up form and composition, I print out each individual stencil, one at a time, onto a separate piece of fabric or paper. These pieces are printed quickly, without fuss, in an intuitive way. I'm in that creatively liminal flow state of uncertainty, where good things happen.
 
These works - my Libraries of Shapes as I call them, represent a kind of legend, a wayfinding document, full of deconstructed symbols and shapes that hint at the original work but don't exactly explain it.
 
When I first started making my Libraries of Shapes, the purpose was merely as a record to keep for myself. However, lately I've come to realise that these adjacent works with their playful, quirky Miró-esque qualities are infact more interesting to me than the main artwork ever is.
 
So with the Repairable Landscape REEF artwork ( that you can read about in detail on my home page) I decided for the first time to not just do one Library of Shapes, but instead to create an edition of ten and make eight of them available for sale. ( I'll keep one and the remaining one is kept with the main artwork) 
 
The purpose of making my Repairable Landscapes is to help amplify the destruction of our environment and say that if we work together it might nopt be too late to repair it. This message is a hard one to bear but these artworks add a light touch to the heavy subject. I like that juxtaposition. I hope you do too.