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For the past 2 years, Matt Antoniak has been collecting and making work from the scraps of paper used to test materials at a local art store. These scraps are covered in doodles and throwaway marks which are then photographed, scanned, cropped and layered before being painted in detail.
Instead of working towards mimicry, the forensic study given to these discarded marks opens up a flexible interpretation of the source material. Deriving meaning from these works is left open ended, with a slippage in translation occurring through the process and formal qualities of the work.