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Artist Statement
My art is a process of searching and understanding.
I work with many different mediums so the art that I create tends to come out in different forms. For the most part I tend towards using oil paint as a medium because it is the most patient. I can take my time with oil and figure out my plans as I go. I usually like to work on large canvases, preferably un-stretched as it gives me a sense that my canvas is boundary-less. I use watercolor mostly as a means for sketching and exploring nature. The delicate nature of watercolor helps me connect with flowers or plants that I can recreate easily. I am extremely interested in paper as a medium and during the pandemic I have been able to explore paper making from scratch, using papers and recyclable materials I find around my house or from friends, I am able to create unique pages all with their own individuality.
I also take a huge amount of inspiration from film which has helped to shape my creative process. Before I start a project I create a kind of “storyboard” to help make the project become clearer. Sometimes it starts as a sketch, other times it is a step by step guide to how to best create the work I saw in my head and make it tangible.
As I work through many mediums I seek to solidify a personal style and develop an approach to analyzing and understanding the world. Right now my approach is not so linear. I find a topic that interests me or that stands out and I follow it to see where it will lead me. I view my art practice as a process, everything I make or do comes with a learning curve or an exploration period. But it is the exploration that makes it interesting to me, it’s what makes it worth creating.
This work titled "Waste Of Time" has evolved into two parts; the process, and the product. The idea was to create a work from the growing mess of waste I find myself surrounded by while stuck inside during the COVID era. And, to catalog it within the pages themselves, to see the remnants of the original papers within the new ones.The Product, is a large grid of home made papers hung together to form a kind of quilt. I found that throughout the papers you could see words, almost like coded messages within. Some more relevant than others. The Process was much more complicated. I had never made paper before so it was very challenging to begin the process correctly. But as I kept going I found that I was spending all my free time sitting on the floor making paper. Every step repeated over and over until they all blended in to one movement. Now I wasn't just making paper, I was becoming aware of the time that was spent doing this process. Time that otherwise might have been spent watching television, wasting away on my phone or doing trivial tasks, became extremely significant. I have captured the process in a short film that aims to satirize the "tutorial video", but also to show the repetitive and time consuming motions of the process.
"Wasted Time"
Paper and Spices
3ft x 3.5 ft
How To Make Paper [A Short Explanatory Video] By Rosie Kalef
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