Vivian Rozenbeek (Netherlands) "Paper has fascinated me for years. You can make it yourself, but you can also re-use or re-work existing paper. In my ‘laboratory’, I constantly experiment combining paper with other materials such as glue, foil, cellophane, paint and textiles. Paper can be the carrier but also the unifying factor. I convert great masses of paper elements of like type or like shape into a new form. Sorting out the chaos. Sometimes I make the elements myself, sometimes I just sort them, as was the case in my latest piece. In my recent work, I have used paper remnants; namely waste from a paper shredder in a government institution. These strips are reworked into forms that I call ‘archives’. The destroyed dossiers are stored in a special way in order to preserve them. I have also collected and sorted large quantities of coloured paper from magazines, brochures and suchlike, which likewise undergo a transformation in the paper shredder and is then fashioned into finished objects. My aim is to create a thing of beauty that provokes thought using the minimum of materials. " From: Timeless Paper, Leiden 2002 © Compres Publishers Ltd