Ruth-Carroll

Referencing Changes
Paper, ink, silk, abaca, feathers and metal

Ruth-Carroll offers that the two images of the Atlantic Ocean are printed on kozo papers and woven together forming that iconographic background of shore/beach/view. The frame is wrapped in cut strips of 1862 texts, some covered in calligraphic lettering practice, and further obscured by a re-wrapping in plain paper. Three panels of flax paper are edged in Japanese stick ink and supported by an eight-bobbin kumihimo braid of copper, brass and stainless steel wire. States on art by Lenore Tawney, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh are drawn across each panel emphasizing an overlapping of fragmentation. Found or formed leaves of tulip petals, antique silk, tissue paper and feathers augment the ink marks in components that reference change.