Waste painting linen offcuts (from painter Tammi Campbell, pulped)_22 x 31cm_2021-2022
“Rags Paper” is a series of handmade papers created by macerating waste fabrics and ‘couching’ them together using a decal box and hand-cut template. The resulting sheets have rag edges and organic geometries. In this case, waste linen from artist Tammi Campbell’s painting practice was used to create grid paper. Some pages were left blank, while others were drawn on using Anni Albers’ textile drawings as prompts. These designs were overlaid into a tumbling blocks pattern, a symbolic and aesthetic grounding principal of Haftner’s practice.
Pieces that follow: “Graph Paper (Campbell & Albers) 01-08_ Linen (from painter Tammi Campbell, pulped), graphite, gouache_22 x 31cm_2021
Many thanks to the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Thanks also to Miriam van der Linden and Betty Disco at De Middelstemolen, without whom this challenging project would not have been possible.