Dead Sea Scrolls, Torah, Kerouac.

Scroll (noun) continual length of parchment/paper. Images and text as potential, actual and expended. What is the nature of the material while it is potential ie in the future and unseen, actual ie present and viewed and expended ie past and seen.

Scroll (verb) participate in the act of moving data in and out of view in a linear way. Somewhere between passive and active.

When we scroll and click to like on data platforms we are behaving as hunter/collectors.

Here Im using a roll of tracing paper to rub/trace one of my sculptures (Portal (2017) 800/100/50mm Portland stone, slate chips, cement) with carved and uncarved pastels in different directions and with differing pressure.