beermats

After this, I spent some time trying to figure out how I could follow it up once I was back in the UK. Main problems (seemingly) being sourcing raw materials and lack of the specialised equipment.

I had a bit of a eureka moment down the pub and thought I could use beermats as my source of pulp. I also thought I could utilise the whole collection process to give any resulting sculptural objects some back-story. I thought I could make a simple sculptural form that used the beermats collected over a set amount of time as a form of documentary tool.

Well, I did a few experiments but I decided that my vague ideas did not have enough weight to justfiy time spent on them at this stage.

Project status: shelved.

Meanwhile…

I had asked my local pub to collect their used beermats for me. This meant that, besides the smells and the stains, several of them had some biro doodles on them.

Project status: interesting tangent that I might come back to later but with a few samples put here for your viewing pleasure in the meantime: