This Paper Chain began with a pack of sticky notes or post-it-notes
Link 1: Rosalind Barker
My thoughts were around the sticky notes function as an aid to memory and there short term adhesive characteristic. I then considered the memory encased within the block of adhesive paper – the self memory of being a tree. 
How to link memory – tree – sticky? A Gum tree! Eucalyptus haemastoma has the common name Scribbly Gum inspired by the tunnels left by moth larvae as they burrow in the bark.
I created a graph plan using all 100 sticky notes. The tree drawing on this occupied only one third of the paper so that once reassembled as a block the drawing would be difficult to ascertain. With “scribbly” marks like the tree bark markings apparent only on some pages the tree drawing would revert being only a memory.
I drew the Scribbly tree on the sticky notes as planned in the graph. While taking photographs and video I then reconstructed the notes back into the block and posted it to the next person in the Paper Chain.
Link 2: Alison Berry
Receiving an artwork based on post-it-notes from Rosalind who preceded me in the paper chain, brought a wry smile to my face. I have always had a mild dislike of post-it-notes and decided to use this as my starting point. The work is a light-hearted dig at the ubiquitous sticky little yellow pieces of paper and their arguably self serving existence. I have perversely stapled a post-it-note carrying the message to buy more post-it-notes and illustrated the life and times of the humble Post-it-Note. Although tongue in cheek much of the work is based on factually accurate research and it can be demonstrated that these yellow pieces of paper have changed the way people communicate with each other in the office.
Link 3: Ruth Payne
The initial impulse was a history of the post-it note, drawn and written on post-its and an A3 piece of paper. The response was to use 7 x 7 multi-coloured post-its to produce 49 loose ‘leaves’ of a potted history of ornament. Each ‘leaf’ is a tracing drawn with silver pen & the tracing paper square stuck to a post-it with its own tack. The tracings were taken from the book “A History of Ornament”, which is a much-used tome, its interesting pages marked by many post-it notes.
Link 4: Lindsay Connors
The translucent tracings of the ornamental objects adhering to their coloured post-its seemed like a ready invitation to turn the images into monoprints. I placed the post it notes over rolled out ink and traced over Ruth’s lines – interesting to replicate the drawings, borrowing someone else’s choice of image and their marks.
Link 5: Niki Campbell
Link 6: Dawn Adams
I used the images sent to me by Niki and experimented by merging some of them together. I wanted to obtain a translucent effect inspired by the previously used tracing paper. I experimented digitally to create an effect of abstracted light passing through.
Link 7: Katie Hayward
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