The Sunday Paper #515

July 21, 2024

Registration opened this week for New Altitudes, the annual meeting of the North American Hand Papermakers, which is taking place in Denver, October 17-19. I’m honored to be giving the Anita Lynn Forgach Keynote Lecture, and I’ll be talking about how moving to altitude helped me grow my business (among other things). There will be many other wonderful presentations, demonstrations and exhibitions, all relating to handmade paper. I hope to see some of you there! Scholarships are available.

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I’ve featured the work of Paul Cocksedge on the blog before. In his Shade edition, the intrusive fittings and flexes of conventional lamps vanish.

© Paul Cocksedge, Paper + LED, edition of 100.

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The work of Roberto Mannino is featured in a show opening this week (through August 16th) at Traffic Zone in Minneapolis. “Contemporary papermaking is an artistic discipline based on the control between states of matter, from fibrous to semifluid and to solid and substantial again… A successful piece is the one that embeds and reflects this umbilical cord, the dialogue between the artist and the matter, where a natural process reveals itself.”

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I haven’t published a video in my Papermaking Series in awhile. I get quite a few questions about beating pulp, so I made this video when I was beating raw flax recently.

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I enjoyed Episode 102, in the Confluence Documentary Series: Material World (look for it on your local PBS station). It features many artists and how they interact with their materials. Matt Shlian (who I featured in this episode of Paper Talk) talks about his relationship with paper.

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Paper Tidbits

• Last month we explored Hexagonal Weaving in The Paper Year. Watch the video, featuring member’s work.
• Did you have a chance to listen to my interview with Emily Martin on Paper Talk?

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