Karen Golland I The Lost Plots I 2021
Karen Golland’s Nan cut stuff out of the newspaper. Every day, for most of her adult life, she clipped images that caught her fancy, using a pair of gold-handled scissors shaped like a bird. No one ever asked Una Golland about these clippings. Precise newspaper cutting was just something she did. In the last decade of her life, Una cut the paper up in rhythm to the Alzheimers that slowly changed her brain. Select. Collect. Remember. Forget. Sometimes she would cut the same image out, again and again. The clippings from this time present a strange and intimate record of her life and the world around her. The Lost Plots forever sorts these remnants, acknowledging their preciousness and the slippery nature of personal and historical archives.
The Lost Plots is composed of 52 individual newsprint images. Each clipping has been glued to board, with the subject of the photograph then cut from the background using a scroll saw. This act transforms the thin newsprint clippings into crisp hard-edged cut-outs, allowing the subject to effectively step from their fragile half-tone plane. Keeping with the conceptual grounding of this work, the composition is not fixed, allowing a new plot to develop every time the work is installed.
The Lost Plots is composed of 52 individual newsprint images. Each clipping has been glued to board, with the subject of the photograph then cut from the background using a scroll saw. This act transforms the thin newsprint clippings into crisp hard-edged cut-outs, allowing the subject to effectively step from their fragile half-tone plane. Keeping with the conceptual grounding of this work, the composition is not fixed, allowing a new plot to develop every time the work is installed.
Karen Golland I The Lost Plots I 2020