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The project is contained in a green card document folder (ie a single sheet of card folded in two so that the back extends slightly further out than the front, down the right side). The folder is rather bent along the right hand edge of the back cover, where it sticks out, and the corners are creased; it is also slightly faded around the edges; these features suggest that it has been stored for a time between other objects, and that it may have had a previous use.
Inside the folder, there are 11 loose sheets of plain white A4 paper; they are not secured or protected in any way, and fall out easily. The work is on one side of the sheet and the pages are not numbered. Some of the pages are slightly crumpled or creased. Greenish- brown marks on some of the sheets indicate contact with some kind of liquid (eg soup).
The writing is all wordprocessed, using a variety of fonts and sizes; on one page, a number within a drawing is written and framed in black biro. The drawings on the cover are wordprocessed, but those elsewhere are produced in pencil, using a mixture of light, heavy, loose or firm strokes. The drawings have a rather ‘clumsy’ quality about them; they look as if they could have been produced by a very young child; they give the impression that Scott finds drawing hard work and has difficulty controlling the tools.
Some pages contain imported materials: magazine cuttings (thin, matt paper), stuck fairly firmly onto the page with glue. The paper is stiff and puckered and, on some pages, smears of glue are visible, suggesting that the glue was rather sloppy, and that it was altogether a rather messy process. There is also some evidence that a few pages have been accidentally stuck together.
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The work has been done on computer and printed directly onto the green card folder. The drawings are printed in black, brown and blue; the lower part of the image at the bottom has been shaded, very heavily, in pencil, and the strokes extend over the wordprocessed outline.
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In the drawing, the number on the blade is written in black biro. There is a pencil mark at the bottom of the page which appears accidental. There are brown marks top right, and larger stains on the reverse side, indicating contact with some kind of liquid with solid bits in it (eg soup). The paper is creased down the lower left side.
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There is a brownish mark to the right of the writing, probably resulting from contact with the reverse side of the previous page. The page is slightly creased.
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There is a small sandy-brown mark top right, indicating contact with some kind of sticky substance (could be soggy biscuit, or cereal)
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This page contains imported material: a magazine cutting. There is a large greasy stain, to the lower right of the cutting.
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This page contains imported material: a magazine cutting; it has been carefully cut out to follow the shape of the boot. A mark to the upper left of the cutting indicates where the glue has smeared.
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This page contains imported material: a magazine cutting. This page is particularly crumpled and creased around the cutting, from the glueing process. On the reverse side, a small piece of paper has been accidentally stuck to the surface.
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This page contains imported material: a magazine cutting. The picture on the other side of the cutting is visible, as a shadow, on this side.
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In the drawing, the bottoms of the jeans are very heavily worked, leaving indentations on the paper. On the reverse side, the surface of the paper is torn, possibly from contact with glue on the following page.
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This page contains imported material: a magazine cutting. This is one of only two pages where cuttings have been carefully cut out to follow the shape of the object. In the ‘boot’ cutting, the picture on the other side of the cutting is visible, as a shadow, on this side. There is a small curved cut, at the very bottom of the page, made up of several very short cuts; at first, it looks as if it could possibly have happened accidentally during the process of cutting out, but none of the cuttings here are quite this shape. The page is quite creased, from the glueing process. There are bits of paper stuck to the surface of the top left cutting, and the working surface around it; this appears to have resulted from the back of the previous page becoming stuck to this one, from glue seeping out from under the edge of the cutting, when the project was ‘closed’.