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Conveyor Motion (2025) responds to the 2007 folio box Body Machine by examining the act of rolling as a point of contact between the artist’s body and the body of the paper. The work sits between the physical labour of making and the uniformity associated with mechanical production. The roll of paper recalls the Fourdrinier machine, whose invention shifted papermaking from a bodily, hand pulled process to an industrial system that removed direct physical imprint. Against this history, the artist reintroduces the body as an active presence.
A monoprint is applied directly onto the scroll using an aluminium pipe coated in fine etching ink. Rolled across the surface with the artist’s hands, the pipe becomes a conduit between body and material. As pressure increases, traces of handprints, skin texture and hair are transferred onto both fibre and metal. Where the artist’s body lifts ink from the aluminium, the surface of the pipe begins to shine; the inverse impression appears on the paper. The print records these shifts in contact and pressure, creating a visual rhythm that conveys motion and marks the points where body and machine intersect most intensely.
By foregrounding the physical act of rolling, and by allowing the body to intervene in a process often associated with mechanical uniformity, the work extends the folio box’s investigation into the relationship between embodiment, material and production. It contributes to the curatorial focus on looking back at the folio box’s themes while looking forward to new iterations of how the body can engage with and disrupt the mechanics of print.
