I'm working with the idea that paper is just another surface form where words or pictures can be developed with the pen. I drew boxes on the paper intended for drawing on top of different surfaces to see the results of the texture, but the paper ended up being a cover and the texture barely showed through. I have narrowed the boxes down to only a few and will select my objects more carefully. Furthurmore, I took apart the pen and traced it onto the sheet and also took the ink out and blotted it on the paper. As I was doing that, it reminded me of ink pictures where people us a variety of shaded dots to create a picture. The dots, to me, represents space and formless shapes that still need to be shape by the hand. I liked that idea and continued onto two other boxes, using a variety of thickness and thinness. It's almost like paint, but with more restriction.

You know when your pen explodes and you get ink all over yourself and it sucks. Well, I've been trying to get that to happen on the paper I'm working on for the project and it's not that easy. A pen is nothing without it's true source, which is ink and ink is meaningless without characters and images.

As for the relationship between the pen and the paper, there isn't really any becuase a paper is anything solid the pen can write on. We're just conditioned to write on paper because it's an easier format to handle.

Project

After many days of consideration, I've decided to do my project on the pen and paper. I want to focus on the mechanism of the pen because it has a lot of attributes in order to become a pen. Like how the containters that hold the ink is just merely that and the ink is what makes the paper important. As for the paper, I want to focus on the blank space it possess and how the environment contributes to whatever the paper becomes.