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Artist book project, carrying on with the Fibonacci sequence, in the 1st box there are instructions:

Add last two numbers together

Write number on peice of paper

Put peice of paper to back of sequence

In the second box I did the first 50 numbers of the sequence, the third box had blank peices of paper and a pencil. All the artist books were put out on display in the corridor, some numbers had been added to the sequence which I was glad about.

For the source project I started off by looking at an essay that Fred Sandback had written about his issues with sculpture. He had been given the advice to simple make a line with a ball of string. With this as inspiration I began making work using string as my basic material. I am interested in minimalism and this has been something I have been trying to work with, with the string. I had been trying to think of a way to create some order to the work I was making and began to look into the Fibonacci sequence. This is a sequence of numbers which can carry on until infinity by adding the last two numbers of the sequence together-

11 2 3 5 8 13 21…

I plan to investigate the Fibonacci sequence further by trying to produce a body of work which relates to each other through Fibonacci. I am unsure as to what exactly I will make but I hope to work through this by simply making and seeing what happens as a result.