It occurred to me that my main preoccupation may well be skin, or at least layers. The manipulated paper is a skin, the image upon it depicts skin. The layer of different coloured inks on the surface also form part of the skin. It is this layer of ink on the surface of the paper which cracks and sloughs off in tiny multicoloured pieces; flakes almost like human skin, when the paper is folded and creased. Writers often mention "partchment like skin". Maybe my current material of choice is "skin like paper".
It is however time to raise the image game a bit and dig around for other visuals to act as material for this research.
Meanwhile it is time to archive source material and get some prints made. I will be interested to see what qualities are retained.
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