Marco Carofalo ART

The large folded prints I have been making with newsprint have an array of different marks, resulting from the folding and drawing activity. Drawing around the stencil and moving the guide after each rotation of drawing or fold provides some very interesting intersections in the drawings. I aim to focus in on these areas and use them to make other responses to the print. My prints are directly related to my drawing and my body which acts as a tool when making the work. 
        This has made me investigate the work of Joel Fisher, in particular the publication that accompanied the Substance and Accident exhibition at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, 1981. The work by Fisher is thought provoking and relates to how I want to develop my work by taking elements and giving them more attention in another iteration of the work. Fisher's works start from him making his own paper that appears at first to be the perfect surface, that without imperfection. However, as he interrogates his freshly made material, the artist discovers tiny hairs clinging onto the paper, Fisher describes these as "tiny events". Fisher goes on to select a hair and draw it, and then proceeds to draw it numerous times, accumulate an inventory of drawings. This makes me think of reproduction like that of the photocopier but by the hand and allows for minor imperfections to set in, much like when a copier is running low on ink and starts to miss areas and form streaks along the paper.

What Fisher is doing here is translating the hair that resides in the three dimensional realm to that of the two dimension. Fisher is working between these two planes and then responds to the drawing in sculpture, thus evolving the drawing into the three dimensional world.

The objects which I’ve made to accompany the drawings appear to be their logical extensions, a confident evolution towards permanence and weight. At the same time the drawings also seem to be descriptive of one particular aspect of the object. This double role is impossible: the drawing cannot perform both roles at the same time. The unity of the two elements begins to break apart.