©2021 Kathryn Arnold

In particular this one does tie in to the paper cranes...I had been folding them for awhile working to get to 1000 folded paper cranes. I tied together this practice of folding paper cranes to the idea of reaching perhaps a moment of perfection (later I realized this would never happen ...and then felt to extend to others a way that they also could begin to fold paper cranes as well/  - perhaps entering into my process and investigation. So what you see here are the instructions for making paper cranes/ not in completeness, but to give just the beginning steps.

There is also a grid forming a defined division between the underlying chaotic markmaking and the more ordered 'instructions'. Grids have been playing a part in much of my work for a long time - a metaphor I continually find relavance in using. I see it as an ordering device and as a way to develop meaning.

Below is a section of my  more general statement:

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“. . . and who therefore ran through the icy streets obsessed with a sudden flash of the alchemy. . .”   from Howl, Allen Ginsberg

"Paintings: marks, kinetic sensation, chaotic energy, a building, a destruction, mental, emotional, complex and bewildering spaces, autobiographical references, major dreams, minor non-dreams.

Guests: Origami paper cranes because of their special place in traditional Japanese legends. In each legend they are the magical transforming vehicle which takes an individual past their intellectual considerations, to a place beyond those limitations.

Materials: gouache, ink, watercolor, acrylic, charcoal, conte, soft pastels, oil pastels, pencil, polymer medium, spray paint, enamel,   on Arches hot-pressed 100% rag, acid-free paper."