CURVES and FLATS

What is the subject here? The aim is to gain control of this medium, mostly so as to be able to make those faces, my main proving ground. And the medium itself —is what? Clearly it involves folding curves (in, as it happens, rectangles of brown wrapping paper sprayglued to thick aluminum foil). Now curve-folding, as is known, creates surfaces that won’t lie flush to each other, or “open folds”; and open folds can be made voluntarily with straight lines too. So maybe our subject is best described as the Manipulation of Open Folds, whether curved or not. And gaining control of this subject, taming it, means, for me—as in certain political theories —flattening it: being able to crush, squeeze, twist, bend the thing to the right or left.... In short, I want to be able to restore an average flatness to a surface deformed by curved or open folds, and then see whether and how such a textured or raised surface can be further manipulated.