1st Saturday Open Studio at The Fun-ness Factory Studio Gallery

Every 1st Saturday, we open our doors for an open studio experience where you can explore local artwork & meet creative folks.

Whether you're an art lover or just looking for a fun way to spend your Saturday, this is the place to be!

This months show...

Featuring July's Fun-ness Factory Mastermind Artist:

Dominque Norville - Collage artist

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danorvil/

Artist Statement: Paper Trail

In an increasingly digital and dehumanized world, it can be hard to remember a time when paper was important. Words written (sometimes by hand) on a piece of paper were an integral way to communicate and impart information. From recipes to greeting cards, storybooks to government licences, words on paper told us who we were, where we came from, and what to do now. Some papers are so immediately recognizable in and of themselves that even a small scrap can instantly convey their meaning and intent.

This series of collages celebrates technologies and forms of communication we might now think of as being quaint. It reflects a sense of history and discarded ways of being. Old papers are now regularly being shredded and destroyed in huge quantities once they have been digitized, leaving these remnants with the tactile glow of what feels to me like ancient artifacts. Overlays of handmade loops and scribbles on top of these official documents are a reminder of cursive writing, another bygone relic in a time of shifting literacy.