"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett.
I remember seeing this quote this summer in the ''Musée de la Chauds-de-Fonds'', written on a drawing by the artist Didier Rittener, who uses the technique of transfer.
Learning and inventing new techniques requires experimentation.
The art-making process becomes a chain reaction during which I lose my initial intentions and observe what happens.
The idea is to transfer agency to the manipulated object.
While I take the risk to completely damage and destroy the piece, I enjoy documenting the process and reflecting a posteriori.
This is done in order to enable the experience of failing better.
I threw away the result which became painfully ugly to my eyes. It's hard to know when to stop. I think exhaustion dictates the end of a piece.
*A part of the experimentation was done during a paper-making workshop by Loren Britton in the Berlin Drawing Room.