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Potato Paper

  • Research
  • Amsterdam (NL)
  • Thanks to Loes SchepensMolenaardappelen
  • Supported by The Mondriaan Fund
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Because of the enormous amount of the potato peels, I decided to dry them first, to keep them from going bad
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These three paintings are based on archival material from the City Archives. They were painted on paper that I made from potato peel paper
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After drying, the paper sometimes turned into a sculpture
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The potato peel paper is fragile and not very dimensionally stable
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I practiced my painting on the peel paper a lot
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painting tests
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The first paper came from China
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Visiting the last paper mill in the world that is powered by wind energy
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Deckle frame for making paper
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At the paper mill: the paper is pressed while drying
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The cotton is mashed before going into the water
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To smoothen the paper, it's pulled through this roller
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Antoine-Augustin Parmentier made every effort to get the potato onto prison and hospital menus. Thanks to him, the potato became one of France's most important food sources