These torn three dimensional paper drawings interested me. The enclosed spaces of the paper. Hanging them on the wall or in mid air gives the torn paper more value in western culture.

How do you make a film that holds the audiences attention? Here Austen’s film is placed at head height. The audience has to do nothing but stand still to be right in front of the screen. Does this catch a person’s attention or do they just make a quick glance with the slightest of head movements as they walk by? I think the viewer has to be asked to do more. It’s too easy. This is also a reason I think Pipilotti Rist’s work when the viewer sits on comfortable bean bags or lays on a bed is too cute and cuddly and easy for the viewer to drift off into a world of their own and not interact with the films around them. Her films are beautiful but not as beautiful as being in nature itself. Why not seat outside on a park bench and day dream rather than in a gallery. The 2 dimensionality of the films makes them too unreal.

The one moment I found truly interesting at the fair was when a gallery assistant was looking through a folio of Rebecca Slater’s drawings on paper and was deciding which one to put on the wall next. I would have liked to be the person holding those drawings rather than the one only looking at then on the wall. Too feel the tactile quality of the paper.