Material Sentience: A Celebration of Material

Material Sentience took two different yet related directions. My interest in accidental rips when folding paper began this project, but I found the composition of the strips of paper scraps in the scanner to be intriguing. Responding to this moment of serendipity and to the agency of the paper and scanner, I created five ‘‘scanimations’’ exploring various ways paper could come to life through movement. For the second part of this project, I revisited my interest in paper rips. I zoomed in and cropped my scans, overlaying photos of mostly landscapes and architecture. I noticed how the roughness of the straight rip seam appeared similar to a horizon line or skyline. To highlight this further, I designed a small photobook and blew up the images through a view-master. This created an intimate viewing experience by playing with scale and transparency.