Jen Stark – Spectrographic Paper Cut
Friday, 1 February 2008
Cosmological Constant – Jen Stark
Employing a spectrographic range of colour, self-similar shapes and contours in her pieces, Jen Stark’s works might at first appear as if they were computer rendered. Instead she cuts through sheets of layered paper, revealing the colours below and shaping the cut paper into complex sculptures with mathematical precision.
Papermation, an animation completed last year, appears to be a stop-frame animation of paper cuts and compositions. The pulsing movement and sequence of configurations may hold some hints to the secrets of Jen’s construction process. This kind of low-tech approach to animation further reminds me of work by early abstract animators such as Oscar Fischinger and Norman Mclaren