Jennifer Heffernan "Untitled" 2008 from Project in Drawing class: "Drawing as Infinite Sketches

For my reducing, erasing, etc. piece I decided right away that I wanted to use flowers or plants because they would very literally work with the idea of a piece which changed and diminished over time. Initially I had envisioned creating a piece in which the flowers would be arranged on one canvas in such a way that as they withered and died, their petals would fall onto another canvas, thus creating a new additional piece alongside the transformed original. After a couple attempts, however, getting the petals to fall off and create a seperate piece proved more difficult than I had imagined and so, as you can see in the pictures I changed my original idea somewhat.
To create this piece I cut holes in one canvas and slid individual flowers through them until I was satisfied with its aesthetic, and then fastened the stems downward along the backside of the canvas to keep them at an upright angle. I placed another canvas below to act as the "receiving" secondary piece and simply waited for the flowers to die.