…turn it into, uh, more paper.

For my 3rd year printmaking class, I’m doing a project that involves making a bunch of my own paper. These scraps will go in it, along with whatever else I can manage to turn into paper. Maybe some cotton rag pulp, abaca (banana leaf) pulp, celery, old t-shirts, some straw, pieces of other people’s prints, who knows…

This (sort of related) interest in exploring the “lives” of resources (as they are found, made into things, and then discarded, and then maybe used again, as is the case with some of the things I’m recycling in my paper) kind of came to me in the last little while, and was a big part of the movie Manufactured Landscapes that I watched the other day.