INSTALMENTS | Charlene Scott

Folding paper, I was thinking about seasons and patterns and how everything eventually loops back again. It made sense to incorporate the dyed fragments of cotton, having gathered them slowly over the years, some shifted with iron, others crisp and clear, markers not only of the colours that have passed through the studio each year but also reminders of what will come around again through the turning of seasons."

- CS

"The geometric works on paper are made by a process I adapted from blind embossing; by submerging paper into a warm dye bath. Once the paper has taken up all the colour I’ll lay it over a composition of shapes cut from card and begin to feel for the edges and emboss with a simple hand tool, as a way to build in time. Gradually a more confident pressure is used and the paper begins to hold a trace of these gentle impressions and reveal the shapes."

- CS