Fold
Fold one part onto another; press once; open; touch nothing.
Ink on one half, a creature across both.
Seen in Andy Warhol, Rorschach, 1984
Try it on your work
Brush ink along one edge of a long strip of paper. Fold the strip in three, press once, and open it. Stop there; add nothing.
Write a few lines in soft pencil on the top half of a page. Fold the page, rub hard over the fold, and open it. Read what transferred, reversed. Stop there.
Two people sit at either side of a table covered with paper and paint on their own half while it is wet. Together they fold the paper along the middle and press. Open it once. Stop there.
How it has been used
Bend one part of a surface onto another and press, so that each marks the other, then open it: the inkblot, the folded monoprint, the cloth pressed together while the dye is wet. The move forbids cutting: the surface stays one piece, and nothing is touched up once it is open.
Where it leads
Grouped under Put different things into contact