A sheet of paper is a self-structuring plane: it is composed of a layer of millions of tiny cellulose fibers which holds itself together without the addition of any binder. Before a sheet of paper is made these cellulose fibers are helter-skelter in water. The plane of the paper is made at that instant when the fibers, riding on top of a filter screen, leave the water and enter the air. The plane which is the paper is created as it passes through the plane which is the surface of the water.
What are now separate sheets of paper were earlier in total integration. Individual sheets have in common a time when there was no separation but only millions of dispersed cellulose fibers in a tub of water. Because of the identical source of these separate pages, the problem of structuring addresses itself to issues of relation and reunion. lt opens itself to questions of identity.
The ' double ' is a very precise statement of relation and reunion. It deals with these issues on two co-ordinates: it is two sheets wide and two sheets deep. The adjacent sheets allow for equation (comparison). The layered sheets remind me of the sequence in which the papers rise, one at a time, from the water. The layering implies potential and reinforces the form.
The sheets of paper take the form of the papermould. The moulds I use are usually rectangles, but the papers never conform accurately to this form. Usually the edges of the paper are not straight lines. Sometimes the sheets are eccentricly irregular. When the second layered sheet is chosen it is with the idea that one irregularity will balance another. The second paper corrects and averages the shape. The geometry I use here emphasises an instable nature through the use of a mean geometry. These are tentative strucruring relationships with a fugitive form.