Burning the Game

June 2023

Burning the Game begins with paper as a material and as a carrier of language. The project starts by collecting discarded paper from everyday surroundings. The paper is reprocessed and remade by hand, then assembled into sculptural forms based on a simple game structure. These forms are sewn, arranged, and prepared through repetitive labor.

The final stage of the work is a burning action. The paper structures are set on fire and destroyed in a controlled ritual. The process is documented, but the objects themselves do not remain.

Through making, organizing, and burning, Burning the Game examines how systems, rules, and language are learned, internalized, and enacted. The work traces the relationship between participation and obedience, and how meaning shifts when a structure is both carefully built and deliberately erased.