Paper Trails

Website design, visual artwork, poster

Papertrails.cargo.site

Paper Trails is a digitised archive of the items found in my memory box during my last two years of university. It presents the ephemera in different categories, which introduces a process of analysing and contextualising my collection, which furthered my understanding of my practice. This approach is reflected in a series of accompanying prints, composed through weaving the categorised ephemera- a process which plays with the notion of woven memories. This allowed me to appreciate the art within the piece of ephemera itself, expressing my sentimentality in a more artistic way.

“The paper trails of our lives -or ephemera- may hold sentimental value, reminding us of great grandparents. They chronicle social history. They can be valuable as collectibles or antiques. But the greatest pleasure is that these ordinary documents can reconstruct with uncanny immediacy the drama of day-to-day life.” - Michael Twyman