Description
A scrap can be a small amount of something - something that has been left over, after the greater part
has been used. It can relate to food - the uneaten bits left after a meal, or bits of the fruit you choose
not to eat. A scrap can emphasise the smallness of something, whether it’s breaking up something or
disassembling it. To scrap something, can mean to discard or eliminate it - it is located amongst the
realm of removal. In terms of scrap metal, its intention is to be kept, suitable for reprocessing, and
recombining for greater volume. This accumulation of bits over time, is how the growth of a Scrapbook
can form.
Scrapbooks tend to be associated with mismatched, random, pasting in of ideas or materials that somehow,
perhaps sentimentally, are worth keeping. Scrapbooks can share a story, preserve an item or restore it.
They can be random or personal, documentative or sentimental, and can be just as chaotic as how the
scraps came to be.
This Scrapbook is a collection of discarded photographic material. From snippets of film collected on the
ground, to unexposed sheets of film, chemical leaks, or light fogging on photosensitive film or paper.
Each mark made through the developing process, disregarded and un-used, has been collected from a
Photographic Lab and from the Artists personal archive.
Removed and displaced from the Photographers intentions, teeth marks appear from the clips used to hang
a roll of film on its loading rack.There are glue marks that attach film to its backing paper, and circular cut out
shapes on the end of a 35mm roll of film. If the film is old and is so thin you can sometimes see the paper
packaging directions come through...These references and potential images, have been revived in a process
of handprinting, to form their own unique shape and purpose as a Scrapbook.
