Rauschenberg’s cardboard series of work has always been of interest to me, I like that it’s so basic and yet 3 dimensional and has a rawness to it. He doesn’t attempt to hide the original damaged surface that he is manipulating, leaving every dent, stain and scratch to be involved in the work. I have been using cardboard in my own work as a surface since Studio Practice 3, I like it not only because it is so readily available in large quantities but because it has so many uses and there’s something really physical about it. Cardboard is somehow both strong and fragile. Rauschenberg’s cardboard compilations feel like a mutated net of something that isn’t easily determinable. These have encouraged me to play around more with found cardboard and how something done being useful can take on a new form.