Mixed Media
Minneapolis, MN
May 2000, 4 weeks
Rebecca Alm’s paper making and mixed media is produced by working within severe process and form limitations. She pulps old books and also uses linen and flax to make new pages from them. The bits and pieces of text that were not destroyed in the beating process become the new story. The old book takes on a new form in both visual structure and meaning depending upon the words that survive. She grows her own flax on family land and collects old garments and domestic linens for hand paper making.