The use of tracing paper in tender was a conscious decision to look for a more fragile platform. I was looking to further explore the idea of precariousness and the tenderness I find in techniques that are necessarily unnecessary in my practice. I find tenderness in the thoughtfulness, in the caring process for two matches to be trapped by thread. There was -once again- an ache to investigate a fragile nature that speaks for the tender end and the patience to savour its delay.
I relate the idea of tracing paper to the ethereal, to something suspended, floated and escaping. It also reminds me of a veil, of the un-veiling, not seeing, of discovering. There is something to the hidden, of knowing its hiding place and peeking. The act of unveiling has the characteristic conscious act of removing a veil that will reveal something. The discovery is not phenomenological, it is known that the veil conceals something and the act of removing it, is a decision. A complicity is being created.