As I thought about the web novel and how to read it I would have to keep scrolling through the pages, going from top to bottom. I spoke to Gen about what I could do to make a scroll, the different kinds of scrolls I could work with.
A scroll (from the Old French escroe or escroue), also known as a roll, is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper containing writing.
A scroll is usually partitioned into pages, which are sometimes separate sheets of papyrus or parchment glued together at the edges. Scrolls may be marked divisions of a continuous roll of writing material. The scroll is usually unrolled so that one page is exposed at a time, for writing or reading, with the remaining pages rolled and stowed to the left and right of the visible page. Text is written in lines from the top to the bottom of the page. Depending on the language, the letters may be written left to right, right to left, or alternating in direction
Lucy May Schofield
"I work in collaboration with expansive landscapes and dark skies, marking seasonal shifts with paper, ink and wood to connect and convene with nature. Observing the way in which time behaves in remote places has resonated in ritualistic acts of making. Meditating on the earth’s rotation, the phases of the moon and our relationship to light and time have inspired performative acts exploring the place. I seek a dialogue with the temporal and transience nature of our impermanence through paper and printmaking. I am interested in belonging and dislocation, remoteness and ritual, separation and intimacy, repetition and remembrance, stillness and light, silence and rhythm, pilgrimage and place."
"I graduated from the London College of Printing in 2002 with a first class honours degree in Print Media (Book Arts). On returning to the UK after several years living in Japan I was awarded a one-year residency with Visual Arts in Rural Communities in Northumberland in 2016, where I am now based. I have attended several wood-block printing training programmes in Japan to study traditional and contemporary mokuhanga techniques with master craftspeople. In 2020 I was awarded the Flourish Award for excellence in printmaking by WYPW. I am the recipient of a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust award for 2022, allowing me to develop a more sustainable practice by incorporating natural pigments and dyes into my work, with plans to return to Japan next year to deepen my knowledge of woodblock printmaking and paper-making."
"Recent work has been presented at The Kentler International Drawing Space in New York, Southern Vermont Arts Centre, The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 3331 Arts Chiyoda Tokyo, IMPACT 11 Hong Kong, and the University of Hawaii, where I was the recipient of the Awagami Paper Prize. My work is held in public and private collections including the Ashmolean Museum, Tate Britain, Yale Centre for British Art, MIT and Stanford University. I have over fifteen years experience of teaching printmaking and book arts to students from around the UK. In 2022 I was elected as an Associate member of the RE Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers."
M
M is for menstruation, motherhood, menopause. M is a is 3 meter long typewritten scroll, containing 1404 lines of the letter m, each line representing a week in time from the age of 13 to 40 years old, 2019, washi & silk.
I love the typewritten text, it's such a dense yet delicate block that places individual attention on each letter m.
1999 - 2019
This print was first conceived in Japan during the MI-LAB advanced programme residency at the foot of Mount. Fuji. ‘The blue between us’ comprised of three initial woodblock prints charting the past seven years. Back in the UK this project evolved to nine prints capturing the last twenty years of emotional landscape. This series will continue to evolve as I begin to plan the prints for ‘1979 - 1999’.
The prints are bound in a scroll covered with Japanese indigo silk and ceramic scroll ends. 26cm x 285cm, Edition of 3, 2020.
I really love the woodblock prints, I love their simplicity, the way they work almost as silhouettes hinting at a larger prominent image.
Borderless – a collaboration across continents
‘All things are delicately interconnected’ – Jenny Holzer.
Borderless is a collaborative project with a collective of artists who took part in the 2019 MI-LAB residency programme from the USA, Ireland, Korea and the UK. Borderless is an artist’s book edition of 8 sumi ink mokuhanga prints presented in a scroll, conceived at a time of growing political divide and separation. The collaborating artists are Katie Baldwin (USA), Patty Hudak (USA), Mariko Jesse (UK), Kate MacDonagh (Ireland), Yoonmi Nam (Korea/USA), Mia O (Korea/Japan), Lucy May Schofield (UK), Melissa Schulenberg (USA).
Borderless is formed of an emakimono, referencing the ancient scroll format originally intended to provide cultural information and teach moral values. Scrolls spanned a ‘great variety of subject matter, from political commentary to epic romances and religious tales, allowing readers to immerse themselves deep within narratives’[1]. Historically scrolls were sometimes used to reflect an artist’s criticism of certain government’s tactics or policies.
Borderless is a visual and emotional correspondence between us as artists across three continents. This dialogue in print is motivated by the desire to connect beyond the experience of the artist’s residency, creating an intersection for us to comment and converse on the state of division in our respective countries. In part it is a response to the UK’s choice to leave the European Union and the previous US administration’s policy to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. Borderless is a vehicle to express an alternate narrative to the culture of separation prevalent in the news of today. This edition was created during 2020, crossing borders despite the Corona virus pandemic.
Borderless was shown as part of Sumi Fusion at the International Mokuhanga Conference in Nara, Japan in December 2021. Edition of 20.
It's stunning how each print works as a part of a whole, how they flow into each other. They have different styles and techniques and look very different. It fits the theme of borderless, connecting across continents.
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