First section of the 'Paper on Paper' book
'To live means to leave traces.'
Walter Benjamin
The project Paper on Paper was built on the archive created from the discarded and forgotten pieces of papers found on the pavements, benches, café tables, libraries, bookshops and other sites across London. What started as an occasional amusement slowly grew into a compulsion to look for paper leftovers and arrange them in a cohesive whole. As the most ambiguous pieces came from the used books from libraries and antique bookshops, I focused my attention on these examples, dividing them in a separate folder. The result was a more specified body of work, constructed solely upon the material left between the pages of books on the shelves. The method I applied could not follow any logical path; rather it resembled a surrealistic chance encounter happening in this case not in the street but in the unsubstantial space between two pages.
