These delicate, watery images are distinctly sexual in appearance, though the shapes occurred by chance. The suggestion of body parts is appropriate, since the ink the artist used was made by dissolving pornographic video tapes. Describing the process, Parker says: "I dissolved pornographic video tapes in solvent and made Rorschach blots with the stain. The video tapes were shredded by the Customs and Excise who decide what should be taken out of circulation. I’m making you look at them again but they’ve become an abstraction...I just dropped these blots of ‘ink’ onto paper and folded it. I didn’t dictate what images appeared."
I was told about this by a ex-tutor of mine, It really opened my eyes to the level of disortion a starting material can go through. I previously had been looking at knitting and weaving video tape but now I realise that I'm not thinking outside the box enough. I still want to experiment with the tape as an altenative to yarn but I also want to experiement with its strength and durablity by manipulating it further with other materials, possibly looking at other ways of breaking it down with inspiration from Cornelia Parker's experiments with solvent.
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