Travis Rice uses shredded paper to create his room-size installations. The artist transforms spaces using thin strips to create dense color gradients that are overwhelming in their saturation. His work feels simultaneously dense and airy due to the material and his focus on making the forms feel like thick flowing rivers and waterfalls.
“I am interested in the most fundamental element of the graphic arts, the mark,” Rice explains. “I am currently exploring the idea of marks as objects and modules that repeat and evolve into larger forms. My installations explore marks as modules that accumulate to create ordered masses. The approach is similar to that of the impressionist painter but the brush stroke has been replaced by individual thin strips of paper that are the resultant product of a mechanical shredder.”
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Source: designfaves.com