| Synopsis: |
Paper is the place of our life designs - sketches of our childhood dreams, our first diary entries, our notes on the outlandish, messages exchanged as youths, letters sent within an envelope, packages that wrapped gifts, our school reports and grades, diplomas, certificates, professional and personal contracts, the wedding invitations of friends, birth and death announcements; paper holds memories or eternity. It is also where we plan out projects before the become a reality - where skyscrapers are planned, where constitutions are written, where formulas and theories develop and extend the frontiers of human knowledge, and where poems, novels and stories are written to move minds to other worlds. In 'Paper Works' a new dimension of paper is brought to the surface - a dimension which adds to the poetic nature of the medium. The artists featured on these paper pages show us how the lightness, fragility, and transience of a single sheet of paper can, through these artists' visions, reveal another world that is full of possibilities. |