The second day, Thursday August 18, two volunteers came out to help with making paper from local invasive plants on Peddock’s Island. We picked some invasive Bittersweet vine to make paper. It was great to have volunteers, Joyce Tat and Bob Marcus, helping with the project.
Here are some photos of the papermaking activities on the second day of the residency project.
Thanks to the great volunteers and also to my husband Timothy S. Allen for taking all the photos. We will keep posting photos and updates about the project.
Public Open Studios will be this weekend August 20 and 21, and we hope to make lots of handmade paper birds representing the endangered species on the Islands. Come join the fun if you are in the Boston area and take the ferry to Peddock’s Island.
Jane Ingram Allen Art Projects 
Dear Jane, Thank you for sharing these pictures. Are you pouring the pulp into bird mold shapes or screen printing the bird pictures on the molds? It is a little hard to tell.Sandra Hansen Holland, MI 49423423 276-0065http://www.sandrahansen.com
Another interesting post about the project. I hope you don’t mind me saying this but it is frustrating to not be able to see the images a bit larger. I reckon they could be made 2 or 3 times bigger without any concerns about loading time or theft and it would be good to see what is going on a bit more comfortably. Thanks 🙂
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Thank you for your comment, and I agree the photos should be larger. I am going to try making them bigger, and I have been very tired at night when I make the posts. There is no Internet on the island, and I don’t bring my computer there since I am working all day with volunteers making the paper from the invasive plant materials. Today we had public participation activities and many people joined in to make bird shaped paper from invasive plants. I will be posting more photos so keep watching this Blog. Thanks again for your interest.
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Hi Sandra, The molds have a stencil material called “butternut” stuck on to them with the bird shape cut out so that the pulp only goes there to form bird shaped handmade paper. We are doing double layers with some natural collected materials sandwiched in between the two layers…we are using goose feathers that are all over the ground around the chapel at Peddock’s Island from the Canadian geese that wander around, and also using weeds and invasive plant bits to form wings and tail feathers on the birds. Each one becomes unique even though they are made from 6 different stencils with the butternut material. Hope that makes it easier to understand. I am posting more photos tonight if I have enough energy. Today we had public participation with the papermaking activity and it was a lot of fun, but very tiring!
Thanks so much for your interest in this artist in residency project at the Boston Harbor Islands National Park.
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