Claudie Hunzinger

In 1980 Claudie Hunzinger discovered that sheets of paper could be made out of plants. She has used it ever since. She submerges one kind of plant in a cooking pot filled with water and adds sodium hydroxide. After boiling and rinsing, no more treatment is needed. The structure of the plants is left intact and she proceeds with colouring. Then the pulp is put in a giant framed screen, floating in a small pond. The structures are spread around in it, and the “hand of the water” is allowed to leave its mark on the fragments intertwining. Afterwards it goes in a press.