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Paige Dempster
Montserrat College of Art
Fall 2020

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Table of Contents

Proposal......................3
Previous Work.............4
Current Work..............14
Senior Show................34

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My current body of work has led me
to making simple drawings of dogs
coupled with nihilist phrases then
cutting them up into simple books.
The premise of these books is that
each page shows a shape or letter
or something seemingly nonsensical,
but when the entire book is broken
down and fully unfolded it reveals
the complete drawing.

I have a small set of guidelines for
myself when making these books.
The book must be made in a way so
that it can unfold into a flat piece
of paper; so far I have been doing
this by only making them out of one
sheet of paper each. If there is a
line on the spread that goes to the
spine, try to make the line continue
onto the next page. There is no
particular reason for this, I just find it
aesthetically pleasing.

I have been working with two figures
this semester, the chicken and the
dog. As of right now I am sticking to
the dog, but I may incorporate the
chicken at some point.

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I began this semester with the idea of
taking real world objects and breaking
them down into abstract icons, since last
semester I worked extensively with icons
and simple images and wanted to stick
close to this theme, so it began with
chickens.

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The idea didn’t stick, but I certainly had
a lot of endearing pictures of chickens
in my sketchbook, so I took all of these
images and compiled them into a book.
This too didn’t stick, but I clung to
presenting my ideas in book format for
the duration of the semester.
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The chicken was a bit sore to look at
after this point, so I changed my subject
to dogs, and instead of a traditional
book, I switched to books made of
single sheets of paper cut and folded to
make small pages. This was a fun format;
it cut up the image in an aesthetically
pleasing way, but the books were not
stable and easily tore apart.

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I took a brief detour back to chickens to
attempt a fan fold book. The switch to
digital drawing as well as minimal paper
cutting certainly helped my process, but I
still wasn’t “there” yet.

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Finally, I landed on a combination of simple
digital drawing, handwritten text, and
cutting single pages into small ten page
books, and this is where I stayed for the rest
of the semester.

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For the show I printed and folded two
hundred individual books and stickers for
people to take home.
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