Date: 14.11.2011
By: sadece
Name of the Technique: Cut Across
Name of the Work: Cut Across the News
Approach of the Technique: Abstract
Materials of Technique: on A3-A4 Paper, Newspaper, Cable (nontraditional materials)
The Brief
I have developed a technique that I called “Cut Across” and using this technique I named my work “Cut Across the News”. I can say for the technique as it is a contemporary technique. I have used for this technique newspapers and cables from inside the computer. I have done abstract pieces of work.
Discussion about Background of Technique
Threshold Matter
Newspapers and also computers, separately cables are tools used for communication in our daily lives. Especially including both pictures and writings, newspapers were the best media until other types of medium like radio, tv, and nowadays pc, took place for sharing the news to public, a publicity technique used for nearly 400 years. “Just one day” is estimated life for newspaper’s real meaning of being. After the day they are published, their lives come to an end for publicity, then their second lives start, for to be used in other purposes, wrapping, bagging, covering, cleaning the windows, using as tablecloth, etc. But then there becomes no importance what is printed on, like pictures, letters. The less they have them on, the more useful and cleaner they are. After excluding what all those pictures and words’ meaning what lefts behind? It is like looking a newspaper written in foreign language, foreign places and people or objects on it. Estrange them all and a fresh looking. This is what I like about the newspapers. They are not just newspapers but they are like wallpapers, decorated with pictures and words that I can look them without trying to understand, searching for meanings. Words are not words anymore, and pictures are not pictures. Just a very-well decorated paper, a bit old, a bit like a second hand, sometimes wrinkled but always a living paper, not like 0km, white smooth papers.
Introduction to Work
Considering the points I have mentioned above, I have decided on newspapers as my first and leading role player. I have given them the role, that we don’t get used to, that they are not published, produced for. My technique then should be depend on not to use them like newspapers. My attitude to them, the newspapers, like the papers as I explained before, decorated papers.
Materials and how they are applied
In some of my workings I cut them in small pieces very thin like fringe also not to lead them to be read and I stick them on paper in a random way to make dense and rare parts, scattered to make viewer to focus on the form rather than to think about the material. The cut and glued newspapers are like short hairs, fringes to make it both 3d and also to use the light effect, and to give a volume. In also some of my works, I make some thin cut newspapers to be in shape like “o” for increasing the volume and by aligning them succession of each other near the cable, trying to give the feeling of continuity with the getting form. Also under light, this kind of work shows you like other face, with changing the direction of light, the effects also are changed.
Except from the small hair type of cutting technique, I also try to use some geometric cut shapes. By using regular geometry like triangle, I tried to see the effect of shapes and the volumes of these shapes if they are like tiers. I cut many of triangles and put them together by glue to arrange like topography. This time, for this part of work I want to take attraction to shape and volume and also arrangement. They are not stable but they are like moving, or just a second ago moved.
In one of my works I used punched papers in circle shape and I draw with those papers make some part of the drawing rare and dense. I didn’t find the result satisfactory as I imagine in my mind. I got cable through the hole I’ve done with cut and stick paper like “Ω” shape. That was another possible way of using paper.
In two mf my works I use cable in 3d. One of them using cables as just small arcs I tried to make shadows successive to each other. The last work I cut the cables in smaller size, to see if I install them like in this size how the effect will be like. I also use cable 3d in that work. I stick the cables as they can stand on the paper. It should be more tried to check what can be done more.
For my backgrounds I usually use paper, A4 and mostly A3 sized papers some are them in color. I like white background for my black cable drawings, but I also like using especially black background to make more contrast between the paper and the cables or newspaper pictures or typography color. Moreover, grey and pink background papers are used to see the background color effect.
Considering the points I have mentioned above, I have decided on newspapers as my first and leading role player. I have given them the role, that we don’t get used to, that they are not published, produced for. My technique then should be depend on not to use them like newspapers. My attitude to them, the newspapers, like the papers as I explained before, decorated papers. Materials and how they are applied
In some of my workings I cut them in small pieces very thin like fringe also not to lead them to be read and I stick them on paper in a random way to make dense and rare parts, scattered to make viewer to focus on the form rather than to think about the material. The cut and glued newspapers are like short hairs, fringes to make it both 3d and also to use the light effect, and to give a volume. In also some of my works, I make some thin cut newspapers to be in shape like “o” for increasing the volume and by aligning them succession of each other near the cable, trying to give the feeling of continuity with the getting form. Also under light, this kind of work shows you like other face, with changing the direction of light, the effects also are changed. 
Except from the small hair type of cutting technique, I also try to use some geometric cut shapes. By using regular geometry like triangle, I tried to see the effect of shapes and the volumes of these shapes if they are like tiers. I cut many of triangles and put them together by glue to arrange like topography. This time, for this part of work I want to take attraction to shape and volume and also arrangement. They are not stable but they are like moving, or just a second ago moved. 
In one of my works I used punched papers in circle shape and I draw with those papers make some part of the drawing rare and dense. I didn’t find the result satisfactory as I imagine in my mind. I got cable through the hole I’ve done with cut and stick paper like “Ω” shape. That was another possible way of using paper. I also use cables in my works in a way that showing them not as they are cables. I want viewer even not try to think about or wonder what materials they are. I just want to use materials with their being, their frame, form. I like their simplicity; even they have a tough job. I find them so esthetical sided by the newspaper, and also on paper background. They have remarkable colors and I like the contrast they make with ground and also I believe that newspapers and cables complete each other both in esthetical way and also according to their material types, one being so susceptible while the other is so durable, not easy to cut off.
In two mf my works I use cable in 3d. One of them using cables as just small arcs I tried to make shadows successive to each other. The last work I cut the cables in smaller size, to see if I install them like in this size how the effect will be like. I also use cable 3d in that work. I stick the cables as they can stand on the paper. It should be more tried to check what can be done more. 
For my backgrounds I usually use paper, A4 and mostly A3 sized papers some are them in color. I like white background for my black cable drawings, but I also like using especially black background to make more contrast between the paper and the cables or newspaper pictures or typography color. Moreover, grey and pink background papers are used to see the background color effect. In conclusion, after looking the finished work, arrived point of the resulted form, trying to use newspaper and cable in a different way from their “real job”, there becomes of explaining feeling in an abstract approach. So the output is nothing as representative but letting viewers to sense it in their way of understanding.
Difficulties faced while applying the technique
First of all as I mentioned papers are very sensitive materials. They can easily be torn or get wet. So it’s better to find a way to make the paper stronger after work is finished. It is also not easy to work with cables, especially to shape them as I want while sticking mostly. Cables are not so elastic to shape. I couldn’t find a way not to leave any sticker or adhesive residual on the paper. Also for more 3d works it would be better to use not paper but harder material as a background.
First of all as I mentioned papers are very sensitive materials. They can easily be torn or get wet. So it’s better to find a way to make the paper stronger after work is finished. It is also not easy to work with cables, especially to shape them as I want while sticking mostly. Cables are not so elastic to shape. I couldn’t find a way not to leave any sticker or adhesive residual on the paper. Also for more 3d works it would be better to use not paper but harder material as a background. What else could be tried with the technique?
This technique can also be used on hard backgrounds like plaque, plate or wood. The technique can be used for relief picturing. With using more and longer cables, and also sometimes, without any materials, just using cables can also give interesting effects and shape esthetical forms. Installing with light, the technique would be more attractive and changeable by light angle, which also could make the work alive, living the day in and according to time.
Using newspaper and cable, it would be difficult to work on realistic drawings. They are more suitable to take part in an abstract works. Also the difficulties that I have faced are some important points to explain why this technique cannot be used like in technical drawing or for illustration in a book.
Cut Across the News Works
