Paper's service to contemporary art is far from exhausted. Some artists have created solid, sculptural elements from neutral or colored pulp, or incorporated objects like string or sea shells to express the particular aesthetics of a work. Other artists have used airy, translucent papers in their books which provide an unusual interplay of light and dark, or juxtaposed a variety of papers as if to manifest an interaction among the individual pages. But there is also an appreciation for more commonplace papers that have been appropriated to a new effect. Some of the artists have utilized paper bags, Polish newspapers, pages from old Bibles, or even children's coloring books.
Paper becomes both foreground and background here.
In all the works in this exhibition, paper is a form of tangible memory, and demonstrates human efforts to convert the products of this earth into a medium for expressing the thoughts of one person to another, one generation to those who will follow.