For our final project, we were instructed to create a product using only materials sourced from the disposal portion of the lifecycle.
I decided to make a sketchbook because I felt like I waste so much paper scribbling, trying to plan what I’m going to draw without actually drawing anything properly, and I wanted to create a sketchbook to serve that specific purpose, using paper that had already been used in that capacity prior.
I sourced the paper for this sketchbook from old newsprint that I’d used for figure drawing sessions in Drawing&Imaging first semester that had been drawn on initially with various amounts of conte and watered down ink and was just going to be thrown away. I blended the paper in a blender with water to create a pulp, poured it onto a screened frame that I made with scrap wood, scrap screening, and staples, ironed the paper to ensure its integrity and textural usability, then bound it with found yarn once it had dried. The cover contain bits of other scrap paper that I cut into pieces and placed in the newsprint pulp while it was still wet on the screen, then I just doodled on it with Micron and white gelly roller once it had dried.
At the end of its lifecycle, the yarn can be removed, and the paper can simply be recycled again.
