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community paper pull

  • Public Space One 229 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City, IA 52245 United States (map)

Come by anytime from 10a-1p for a community paper pull as part of Nicholas Cladis’ project no coming, no going.

Participants will “pull” a single sheet of handmade paper. When each sheet of paper is made and dried, it will then be placed within the PS1 gallery space as a progression that has been situated to seated eye level. He hopes for each participant to become a piece of this communal oneness, while also developing a basic feel for the interaction between fiber and water, and the interrelationships of time, land, material, community, and choreography inherent to the hand papermaking process. 

Each day, Cladis will add a little bit more black pulp (dyed with soot, to reference the eventual return of the paper to the earth), thereby creating a subtle tone shift in the paper as it wraps around the space.