So, given the context of this development in your artwork and your interests over the last few years, can you see where your future work is headed?
This is new terrain for me. I tend to get really interested in a topic that I don’t know about and use making as a process of figuring it out. Once I come to lots of conclusions, I usually stop and go somewhere else and start over. I see myself as more of a research historian than as an artist. Making is more of a remnant of that process. For me, the natural world is so unknown and unfamiliar. I’ve also been working very small scale — those windows [installations in the front of the gallery] are an attempt at moving towards a larger scale. For the upcoming show at Bowdoin College I’m actually going to do a really big piece. Something you can walk through.
That’s a lot of quilling!
I have a year!
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Ian Paige: ianpaige@gmail.com
Topics:
Museum And Gallery
, Bowdoin College, Lauren Fensterstock
