18 May 2026

Paper and the edge of a shadow

Most of this month went into scanning paper. Not to reproduce it, but to keep the grain and the small uneven places where light catches. A flatbed makes a sheet look very even; the work is in leaving some of the unevenness in.

What came out of it is mostly grey with one warm area. Everything is made digitally — the paper is scanned, then cut, blurred and layered in software until the shadow stops behaving like a photograph of a shadow and starts behaving like a shape.

By the end nothing is a document of a real sheet of paper. It's closer to a memory of one, which is the only thing I'm after.