The Paper Chase is an ongoing community project exchanging art for paper. This is how it works...
If you have any found paper laying around that you don't mind parting with & posting to me, I will in return, make you a collage with some of the paper you send & ship it back to you, keeping the rest of the paper for my own projects. You get a little artwork, I get some paper joy!
The types of paper I'm interested in are not necessarily rare or
valuable ephemera. I'm looking for mainly pre-1970 paper (although I do
use more recent & brand new paper sometimes too, so some of
that is fine) such as the following...
- receipts & invoices
- advertisements from magazines, comics, etc. (I love the little ads in the back pages)
- pages from books, magazines, comics, ledgers & notebooks
- patterned end papers from books would be great
- labels & packaging
- envelopes, letters, stamps & postcards
- anything with handwriting on it, particularly old-fashioned pen & ink
- anything without writing on it such as notepaper, graph paper, etc.
- brown paper bags
- paper that is aged, yellow, spotty, stained, even torn is fine
- greeting cards & gift wrap
- wallpaper
- sheet music
- maps
- photos, especially old portraits
- flyers, forms, theatre programs, etc.
Extra great is ephemera from different cultures - China, Japan, India, Mexico, etc. Colourful, decorated paper is nice, but not essential - some of my favourite pieces are regular white paper that has aged to varying shades of yellow & brown.
Take a look at some of the packages I've already received.
If you're interested in participating in The Paper Chase, just send your little bundle of paper to me with your return address, email address & website/blog url (I'd like to mention you on my blog). What you send me will naturally influence what I make for you (what a great challenge!) but I might also use some paper from my own collection, including some of my own prints & illustrations. I don't expect you to send a massive bundle, but of course, it needs to be a fair exchange, so a nice little collection of bits & pieces is good! The resulting artwork I make for you will be small-format, around 4x4" to 6x6" or thereabouts. Depending on where I need to ship it (& how busy I am), turn around time will be 2-4 weeks.
Please send paper to:
Magic Jelly
P O Box 542
Welland. South Australia. 5007
AUSTRALIA
If you have any questions, feel free to email me.
